{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-amalgamations-etc-act-1964-repealed-16101992/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/24",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union (Amalgamations, etc.) Act 1964 (repealed 16.10.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-amalgamations-etc-act-1964-repealed-16101992",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Power to alter rules of transferee union for purposes of transfer of engagements.",
  "text": "Where a trade union proposes to transfer its engagements to another trade union, and an alteration of the rules of the transferee union is necessary to give effect to provisions in the instrument of transfer, the committee of management or other governing body of the transferee union shall, unless the rules of that union expressly provide that this section shall not apply in relation to that union, have power, notwithstanding anything in the rules of that union, by memorandum in writing to alter the rules of that union so far as is necessary to give effect to those provisions; but an alteration of the transferee union’s rules under this section shall not take effect unless or until the instrument of transfer takes effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1964/24/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:59:48.444644+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."
}