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Version date: 1 August 2015 - onwards
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27. Amendment of Principal Act

The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following sections after section 1:

"1A. Collective bargaining

For the purposes of this Act, 'collective bargaining’ comprises voluntary engagements or negotiations between any employer or employers’ organisation on the one hand and a trade union of workers or excepted body to which this Act applies on the other, with the object of reaching agreement regarding working conditions or terms of employment, or non- employment, of workers.

1B. Excepted body to which this Act applies

For the purposes of this Act, 'excepted body to which this Act applies’ means a body that is independent and not under the domination and control of an employer or trade union of employers, all the members of which body are employed by the same employer and which carries on engagements or negotiations with the object of reaching agreement regarding the wages or other conditions of employment of its own members (but of no other employees).".