Section 111 - Union dues

(1) A trade union to which this section applies may issue to the employer of any workers who are members of that trade union, a notice in the form in Schedule II to this Act requesting the employer

(a) to deduct from the wages of his or her workers covered by a certificate issued under section 99, the sums specified by the trade union; and

(b) to pay over the sums deducted as may be directed by the trade union, and, subject to this section, the employer shall comply with the notice.

(2) A trade union to which this section applies may, on issuing a notice in the form in Schedule II to this Act or subsequently, issue a further notice requesting the employer, out of the amounts which the employer is to pay over to the trade union, to remit a proportion stated in the notice directly to a specified branch of the trade union.

(3) A sum deducted in accordance with a notice given under this section shall be in discharge of the liability of the respective member of the trade union to pay dues to that trade union.

(4) A sum which an employer has in accordance with a notice under this section deducted from the wages of a worker to the trade union shall be paid over not more than one month after the date on which the wages are paid, and the trade union may sue in its own name for any sum which ought to have been paid to the trade union.