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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-1984-repealed-16101992/section-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/49",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union Act 1984 (repealed 16.10.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-1984-repealed-16101992",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part I and transitional provision.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“the 1964 Act” means the Trade Union (Amalgamations, etc.) Act 1964;\n“the 1974 Act” means the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974;\n“the Certification Officer” means an officer appointed under section 7 of the Employment Protection Act 1975;\n“member”, in relation to a trade union’s principal executive committee, shall be construed in accordance with section 1(6A) to (6C) of this Act;\n“merchant seaman” means a person whose employment, or the greater part of it, is carried out on board sea-going ships;\n“offshore worker” means a person in employment to which section 127 of the Employment Protection Act 1975 (employment for purposes of activities in territorial or other offshore waters) applies, other than one who is in such employment in any area where the law of Northern Ireland applies;\n“overseas member”, in relation to a trade union, means a member of the union (other than a merchant seaman or offshore worker) who is outside Great Britain throughout the period during which votes may be cast;\n“post” means a postal service which—\n(a) is provided by the Post Office or under a licence granted under section 68 of the British Telecommunications Act 1981; or\n(b) does not infringe the exclusive privilege conferred on the Post Office by section 66(1) of that Act only by virtue of an order made under section 69 of that Act;\n“principal executive committee” has the meaning given in section 1(5) of this Act;\n“proper address”, in relation to any member of a trade union, means his home address or any other address which he has requested the union in writing to treat as his postal address;\n“section”, in relation to a trade union, includes any part of the union which is itself a trade union;\n“single transferable vote” means a vote capable of being—\n(a) given so as to indicate the voter’s order of preference for the candidates; and\n(b) transferred to the next choice—\n(i) when it is not required to give a prior choice the necessary quota of votes; or\n(ii) when owing to the deficiency in the number of votes given for a prior choice, that choice is eliminated from the list of candidates;\n“special register body” has the same meaning as it has in the 1974 Act by virtue of section 30;\n“trade union” has the same meaning as it has in the 1974 Act by virtue of section 28;\n“voting member” shall be construed in accordance with section 1(7) of this Act; . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) For the purposes of this Part, the date on which a contested election is held is, in the case of a ballot in which votes may be casr on more than one day, the last of those days.\n(3) Where a voting member of the principal executive committee of a trade union was elected as such a member, or as the case may be as the holder of a relevant position, at an election held within the period of five years ending with the commencement of this Part—\n(a) section 1(1)(a) of this Act shal have effect, as if it did not require section 2 of this Act to be satisfied in relation to that election; and\n(b) the period of five years mentioned in section 1(1)(b) shall be calculated from the date of that election.\n(4) In subsection (3) above “relevant position” means a position in the union by virtue of which the holder is a voting member of the principal executive committee of the union.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definition inserted by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 33(1), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 5(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word repealed by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 33(2), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Definition repealed by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 33(2), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1964 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1974 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1975 c. 71."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1981 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/49/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:15.808485+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}