This Section repeals section 2 of the Trade Union Act 2016 and makes consequential amendments to Schedule 4 to that Act. Section 2 required at least 50% of the trade union members entitled to vote to do so in order for the industrial action ballot to be valid. The law will revert to requiring a simple majority of those voting for a ballot conducted by a trade union for industrial action to be successful.
	Subsection (1) provides that the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 is amended by subsections (2) to (5), set out below.
	Subsection (2) amends section 226 (2)(a) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to remove (iia), the requirement for a trade union to meet the 50% turnout threshold of those entitled to vote, in order for the industrial action to have the support of a ballot.
	Subsection (3) makes consequential amendments to section 231 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to reduce the information to be shared with those entitled to vote in the ballot to the number of votes cast in the ballot, numbers answering yes and no to the question and the number of spoiled or invalid voting papers.
	Subsection (4) consequentially removes section 297A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 which defines the meaning of "voting" to include those who return spoiled or invalid ballot papers.
	Subsection (5) makes a consequential amendment to remove the entry for "voting" from section 299 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 which provides for where the expression is defined.
	Following the above changes, subsection (6) removes section 2 of the Trade Union Act 2016, changes Schedule 4 to remove paragraphs 12 and 17, and makes a consequential amendment to section 231 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to remove information requirements to members following a ballot that will no longer be relevant once the turnout threshold is repealed.
Part 4: Trade Unions and Industrial Action, etc Industrial action: ballots Section 68: Industrial action ballots: turnout threshold