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An Act to amend The Trade Union Act (Assented to , 1997) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows:

Short title This Act may be cited as The Trade Union Amendment Act, 1997 . R.S.S. 1978, c.T-17,

section amended 2(1)

Section of The Trade Union Act is amended in the manner set forth in this section. (2) Subsection (3) is amended by striking out “ Where” and substituting “Subject to subsections (3.1) and (3.2), where ”.

(3) The following subsections are added after subsection (3): “

(3.1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make an order exempting a collective bargaining agreement and the parties to that collective bargaining agreement from the application of subsection (3) where: (

a) a request is made jointly to the minister by the parties to the collective bargaining agreement; and (

b) the collective bargaining agreement is not the first collective bargaining agreement negotiated between the parties. “

(3.2) For the purposes of subsection (4), where an order is made pursuant to subsection (3.1), the expiry date of the collective bargaining agreement to which the order applies is the expiry date set out in the collective bargaining agreement”. Coming into force This Act comes into force on assent. 2 TRADE UNION2 REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN Printed by the authority of THE QUEEN’S PRINTER Copyright'1997