{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-act-1974-repealed-16101992/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-act-1974-repealed-16101992/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/52",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 (repealed 16.10.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-act-1974-repealed-16101992",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Acts in contemplation or furtherance of trade disputes.",
  "text": "(1) An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort on the ground only—\n(a) that it induces another person to break a contract or interferes or induces any other person to interfere with its performance; or\n(b) that it consists in his threatening that a contract (whether one to which he is a party or not) will be broken or its performance interfered with, or that he will induce another person to break a contract or to interfere with its performance.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure the doing of any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable in tort if the act is one which, if done without any such agreement or combination, would not be actionable in tort.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 13(1) Substituted by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976 (c. 7), s. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 13(2) repealed by Employment Act 1982 (c. 46, SIF 43:5), s. 19(1), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 13(3) repealed by Employment Act 1980 (c. 42), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 13 excluded by Employment Act 1982 (c. 46, SIF 43:5), s. 14, by Trade Union Act 1984 (c. 49, SIF 43:5), s. 10(1)(2) and by Employment Act 1988 (c. 19, SIF 43:5), s. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 13 excluded by S.I. 1989/901, art. 5 and by Employment Act 1990 (c. 38, SIF 43:5), ss. 4(1), 9(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 13 excluded by Employment Act 1980 (c. 42), ss. 16(2)(3), 18"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/52/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:01.684472+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."
}