4(1)Except with the consent of the employer, no trade union or council of trade unions, and no person acting on behalf of a trade union or council of trade unions, shall attempt, at an employer’s place of employment during the working hours of an employee of the employer, to persuade the employee to become or refrain from becoming or to cease to be a member or officer of a trade union or council of trade unions.

4(2)Subject to subsection (1), where an employee resides on land owned by or under the control of his employer or a person who owns or has an interest in the land on which the operation in which he is employed is conducted, the person owning or having control of the land shall not prohibit, prevent or interfere with the visiting of the employee by any representative of a trade union or council of trade unions to whom the Board has issued a permit under this section, in accordance with the terms of the permit, for any purpose relating to the formation, organization, selection or administration of a trade union or council of trade unions or soliciting membership in a trade union.

4(3)On application therefor, the Board may issue, for the purposes of subsection (2), a permit, subject to such terms as the Board deems advisable, to a representative of a trade union or council of trade unions to visit employees.

4(4)A representative of a trade union or council of trade unions who visits an employee in the circumstances described in subsection (2) is not, by reason solely of that visit, a trespasser on the land on which the visit is made.