Trades Unions Act 1889

Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for the breach of any agreement – between members of a trade union as such concerning the conditions on which any members of such trade union shall or shall not sell their goods, transact business, employ, or be employed; for the payment by any person of any subscription or penalty to a trade union; for the application of the funds of a trade union – to provide benefits to members; to furnish contributions to any employer or workman, not a member of such trade union, in consideration of such employer or workman acting in conformity with the rules or resolutions of such trade union; or to discharge any fine imposed upon any person by sentence of a court; or made between one trade union and another; or any bond to secure the performance of any of the above-mentioned agreements.

Nothing in this section shall render any of the above-mentioned agreements unlawful.