Section 25Part 5 — Special provisions
Agreement or combination, when not a conspiracy
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An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall, if done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless this act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.
Nothing in this section shall exempt from punishment any persons who commit the offence of conspiracy, nor affect the law relating to riot, unlawful assembly, breach of the peace or sedition, or any offence against the state or the sovereign.
A "crime" for the purposes of this section means an offence punishable on indictment, or an offence which is punishable on summary conviction, and for the commission of which the offender is liable, under the statute making the offence punishable, to be imprisoned either absolutely or at the discretion of the Court as an alternative for some other punishment.
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crime