Section 47: Candidates.

Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 · 1992 c. 52View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: Trade Unions — Chapter IV: Elections for certain positions

No member of the trade union shall be unreasonably excluded from standing as a candidate.

No candidate shall be required, directly or indirectly, to be a member of a political party.

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.

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