The Employment Act 1990 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Order 1990

This Order may be cited as the Employment Act 1990 (Commencement and Transitional Provisions) Order 1990.

In this Order, “the Act” means the Employment Act 1990.

section 13 (merger of Redundancy Fund with National Insurance Fund &c.);

section 16(1) (consequential amendments) to the extent that it relates to paragraphs 1(3), (4), (5) and (6) of Schedule 2 to the Act;

section 16(2) (repeals) to the extent that it relates to the repeals in Schedule 3 to the Act mentioned in the Schedule to this Order.

Except as mentioned in paragraph (2), section 1(3) or, as may be appropriate, 2(3) of the Act (which concern advertisements containing union membership requirements) shall apply in any case where the advertisement in question is published after 31st December 1990.

Section 1(3) or, as may be appropriate, 2(3) of the Act shall not apply in relation to an advertisement where it is contained in a book or periodical which is published after 31st December 1990 by a person other than the employer or, as the case may be, employment agency if—

For this purpose, “periodical” means any newspaper, magazine, catalogue or like publication, and each version or edition of a book or issue of a periodical shall be regarded as a different book or periodical.

Sections 5(1), (2) and (3) of the Act (which concern ballots about industrial action) shall not apply in relation to a ballot if the first day on which votes may be cast in the ballot falls before 1st January 1991.

Section 5(4) and (5) of the Act (which concern political fund ballots and ballots for union office) shall not apply in relation to a ballot if the scrutineer begins to carry out his functions in relation to the ballot before 1st January 1991.

the amendments made to section 15 of the Employment Act 1982^f1 by section 6 of the Act (responsibility of trade union for acts of officials, &c.); nor

the amendments made to section 10 of the Trade Union Act 1984^f2 and section 1 of the Employment Act 1988^f3 by paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 2 to the Act; nor

the repeals in section 15 of the Employment Act 1982 made by Schedule 3 to the Act

Sections 7 (calling of industrial action with support of ballot) and 8 (period after which ballot ceases to be effective) of the Act shall not apply in relation to a ballot if the first day on which votes may be cast in the ballot falls before 1st January 1991.

Where—

the call shall only be taken to have been made by the union, and industrial action shall only be taken to have been authorised or endorsed by the union if there was an authorisation or endorsement of an act (within the meaning of subsection (2) of section 15 of the Employment Act 1982) which made the act an act done by the union for the purposes of the said section 15 as it stood before the amendments made to it by section 6 of the Act came into force.

Section 62A of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978^f1 inserted in that Act by section 9(1) of the Act (dismissal of those taking part in unofficial industrial action) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act shall apply to the dismissal of an employee if the time of his dismissal falls after 31st December 1990.

Industrial action shall not be regarded as unofficial in relation to an employee for the purposes of the said section 62A if—