Paragraph 20 of the Schedule amends paragraph 35 (admissibility of applications: existing collective agreement) of Schedule A1 by specifying that any worker that joins the bargaining unit after the application day is not counted for the purposes of the recognition process.
	Paragraph 20 of the Schedule also amends paragraph 35 of Schedule A1 to ensure that a recognition agreement agreed between an employer and a non-independent union following the receipt by the employer of a letter from an independent union formally requesting voluntary recognition, cannot block the independent union’s subsequent application for statutory recognition. This is as long as the statutory recognition application is submitted by the independent union within 20 working days from the end of the period where the employer has to respond to the request for voluntary recognition under paragraph 11 or 12 of Schedule A1.
	Paragraph 21 of the Schedule amends paragraph 36 (admissibility of applications: minimum support) of Schedule A1 by inserting the ‘required percentage test’ of the number of workers in the bargaining unit who are members of the union and specifies that any worker who joined the bargaining unit after the application day is not to be counted for the purposes of the recognition process.
	Paragraph 22 of the Schedule amends paragraph 38 (admissibility of applications: overlapping bargaining unit) of Schedule A1 by inserting references to circumstances where the CAC has issued a declaration or order against either the union or employer in relation to non-compliance with an access agreement or an unfair practice. Paragraph 38 is also amended to specify that any worker who joined the bargaining unit after the application day is not to be counted for the purposes of the recognition process.
	Paragraph 24 of the Schedule amends paragraph 40 (admissibility of applications: union not entitled to be recognised) of Schedule A1 by inserting, in addition to the circumstance where the union loses the recognition ballot, additional circumstances where the CAC declares that the union has not been recognised if the CAC has found against the union in relation to non-compliance with an access agreement or is satisfied that the union has carried out an unfair practice.
	Paragraph 25 of the Schedule inserts a new paragraph 40A after paragraph 40 of Schedule A1. New paragraph 40A sets out that where the CAC has declared that the union is not entitled to be recognised, then any future application within a period of 3 years by that same union(s) for statutory recognition where the bargaining unit is the same or substantially the same will not be admissible. It should be noted that this does not change the previous policy.
	Paragraph 26 of the Schedule amends paragraph 41 (admissibility of applications: union required to cease bargaining arrangements) of Schedule A1 by updating references to circumstances where the CAC has found against a union in relation to non-compliance with an access agreement or that the union has committed an unfair practice as part of a derecognition process.
Part 4: Trade Unions and Industrial Action, etc Trade union recognition Part 2 - Recognition General provisions about admissibility of applications