Section 26Part 5 — Special provisions
Peaceful picketing and prevention of intimidation, etc.
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It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides, works, carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working: Provided that it shall not be lawful for one or more persons (whether acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm, and notwithstanding that they may be acting in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute) to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides, works, carries on business or happens to be, for the purpose of obtaining or communicating information or of persuading or inducing any person to work or to abstain from working, if they so attend in such numbers or otherwise in such manner as to be calculated to intimidate any person in that house or place, to obstruct the approach thereto or egress therefrom or to lead to a breach of the peace.
In this section — "injury" includes injury to a person in respect of his business, occupation, employment or other source of income, and includes any actionable wrong; and "intimidate" means cause in the mind of a person a reasonable apprehension of injury to him or to any member of his family or to any of his dependants, or of violence or damage to any person or property.
Notwithstanding anything in any law it shall not be lawful for one or more persons, for the purpose of inducing any person to work or to abstain from working, to watch or beset a house or place where a person resides or the approach to such a house or place.
Whoever contravenes the proviso to subsection (1), or subsection (3), commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of forty dollars or to imprisonment for three months.
Defined Terms
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