Clause 18
Employment Bill [Lords]
1:00 pm
Jonathan Djanogly (Shadow Minister, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Huntingdon, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 17, in page 17, line 41, at end add—
‘(4) In section 177 (interpretation and other supplementary provisions) after subsection (2) there is inserted—
“(2A) For the purposes of section 174 an individual will only be considered to be a member of a political party if within the 12 months prior to the date of an individual’s application for membership of the trade union that individual was registered with the political party as a member.’.