Necessary protection
9. On the question of maintaining necessary protection
in the event that the legally binding agreements are unable to
do so, the Home Office statement says that the Department would
be "prepared to undertake that a Bill would be introduced
to reapply section 127 as quickly as possible in the event of
a collective agreement being terminated in circumstances where
it was clear that the protection provided by the agreement could
not be replaced by a new agreement".[6]
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