The Police Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 46) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which set up an alternative dispute resolution system within UK labour law for collective disputes involving members of staff in the police force. The current rules are now found under the Police Act 1996. Following the British police strikes in 1918 and 1919, the government decided that it was a threat to the public to allow strikes among the police force to take place. The act prohibited police from joining a trade union that could take strike action protected by the Trade Disputes Act 1906 (6 Edw. 7. c. 47) , and provided an alternative in the Police Federation of England and Wales and the Scottish Police Federation. A substitute for strikes was binding arbitration to resolve collective disputes.

Subsequent developments

Sections 3, 4 and 10 of the act were repealed for Scotland by section 38(1) of, and the third schedule to, the Police (Scotland) Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 26), which came into force on 1 January 1957.

The whole act was repealed by section 64(3) of, and part II of schedule 10 to, the Police Act 1964, which came into force on 1 August 1964.

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