Trade Union Act, 1941

Functions of Appeal Board.

31.—Where a determination of the Tribunal is submitted to an Appeal Board for review the Appeal Board shall hear every person who desires to be heard and appears to have an interest in such determination and shall receive any evidence tendered by such person, and the following provisions shall thereupon have effect, that is to say:—

(a) if the Appeal Board, having considered all the circumstances of the case, are unanimously of opinion—

(i) that such determination is not in the public interest, or

(ii) that, in case such determination relates to one or more trade unions of workmen, the Tribunal, when making such determination, did not adequately safeguard the rights and claims to benefits enjoyed by any workmen and adversely affected by such determination or the position of officers of trade unions so adversely affected, or

(iii) that the tribunal did not make such determination in a sufficiently precise form,

the Board shall, upon grounds stated by it, refer such determination back to the Tribunal for reconsideration,

(b) in any other case, the Appeal Board shall decline to interfere with such determination.