{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992/section-47",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/52",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-and-labour-relations-consolidation-act-1992",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Candidates.",
  "text": "(1) No member of the trade union shall be unreasonably excluded from standing as a candidate.\n(2) No candidate shall be required, directly or indirectly, to be a member of a political party.\n(3) A member of a trade union shall not be taken to be unreasonably excluded from standing as a candidate if he is excluded on the ground that he belongs to a class of which all the members are excluded by the rules of the union.\nBut a rule which provides for such a class to be determined by reference to whom the union chooses to exclude shall be disregarded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/52/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:34.194369+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."
}