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Trade Disputes (Essential Services) Act, 1976 🇳🇬

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Trade Disputes (Essential Services) Act, 1976

  • Commenced on 21 May 1976
  • [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2002.]
An Act to empower the President to proscribe any trade union or association the members of which are employed in any essential service if such union or association has been engaged in industrial unrest or acts calculated to disrupt the smooth running of any essential service.

1. Power to proscribe trade unions or associations in certain cases, etc.

(1)If the President is satisfied that any trade union or association any of the members of which are employed in any essential service-
(a)is or has been engaged in acts calculated to disrupt the economy or acts calculated to obstruct or disrupt the smooth running of any essential service; or
(b)has, where applicable, wilfully failed to comply with the procedure specified in the Trade Disputes Act in relation to the reporting and settlement of trade disputes, he may by order published in the Federal Gazette proscribe t…

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