Section 127 — Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992: Corporate or quasi-corporate status of employers’ associations.

Corporate or quasi-corporate status of employers’ associations. 127 1 An employers’ association may be either a body corporate or an unincorporated association.

2 Where an employers’ association is unincorporated—

a it is capable of making contracts;

b it is capable of suing and being sued in its own name, whether in proceedings relating to property or founded on contract or tort or any other cause of action;

and c proceedings for an offence alleged to have been committed by it or on its behalf may be brought against it in its own name. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .