Marginal note:Parties may vary or amend agreement

12. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to limit or restrict the rights of the parties to the collective agreement to which this Act applies to agree to vary or amend any of the provisions of the agreement as amended pursuant to this Act, other than a provision relating to the term of the agreement, and to give effect thereto.

Marginal note:Punishment for offences

• 13. (1) Where an individual, the union or a company contravenes any provision of this Act, the individual, union or company, as the case may be, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable, for each day or part of a day during which the offence continues, to a fine

  • (a) subject to paragraph (b), of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000, in the case of an individual who is convicted of the offence;

  • (b) of not less than $10,000 and not more than $50,000 where, in the case of an individual who is convicted of the offence, the individual was an officer or representative of the union or of the company and the offence was committed while the individual was acting in that capacity; or

  • (c) of not less than $20,000 and not more than $100,000, in the case of a company or the union that is convicted of the offence.

• Marginal note:Additional punishment

  (2) No officer or representative of a union who is convicted of an offence under this Act that was committed while the officer or representative was acting in that capacity shall be employed in any capacity by, or act as an officer or representative of, the union at any time during the five years immediately after the date of the conviction.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (3) No officer or representative of a member of the employers association, including any corporation listed in Schedule I, who is convicted of an offence under this Act shall be employed in any capacity by, or act as an officer or representative of, the employers association at any time during the five years immediately after the date of the conviction.

Marginal note:Coming into force

Footnote ^*14. This Act shall come into force on the day immediately after the day on which it is assented to but not before the twelfth hour after the time at which it is assented to.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Act assented to November 18, 1986.]