Section 67 Blacklists: additional powersI1

Section 3 of the Employment Relations Act 1999 (blacklists) is amended as follows.

In subsection (1)(b), omit “by employers or employment agencies”.

After subsection (2) insert—

“(2A)

The Secretary of State may make regulations prohibiting—

(a)

the use of lists which contain details of members of trade unions, or persons who have taken part in the activities of trade unions, for the purposes of discrimination in relation to recruitment or in relation to the treatment of workers;

(b)

the sale or supply of such lists with a view to being used for those purposes.”

In subsection (3)—