# The Employment Act 1988 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1988, Article 9: Transitional provisions


Where an election is held on or after the first commencement date but the latest time at which a person may become a candidate in that election falls before that date the requirements of section 13 of the Act shall be taken to be satisfied if—
(a) all the candidates are given one of the following entitlements (being the same entitlement for each candidate), that is to say—
(i) to distribute an election address to those persons entitled to vote in the election;
(ii) to have distributed to those persons an election address submitted to the union by the candidate;
(iii) if it is the practice of the union to include election addresses in a publication sent to or made available to members of the trade union, to have an election address included in such a publication;or
(b) no candidate is given any of the entitlements mentioned above or any other entitlement to bring to the attention of members of the union, or have brought to their attention, any written election address.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1118/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-1988-commencement-no-1-order-1988/article-9
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