Non-liability for acts in furtherance of trade dispute

(1) An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation of or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be triable as a 23 conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime. (2) An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall not be actionable if done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable. (3) Nothing in this section shall exempt from punishment any person who commits a conspiracy for which a punishment is awarded by any law in force in Belize. (4) Nothing in this section shall affect the law relating to riot, unlawful assembly, breach of the peace or sedition or any offence against the State. (5) A crime for the purposes of this section means an offence for the commission of which the offender is liable to be imprisoned either absolutely or at the discretion of the court as an alternative for some other punishment. (6) Where a person is convicted of any such agreement or combination as aforesaid to do or procure to be done an act which is punishable on summary conviction, and is sentenced to imprisonment, the imprisonment shall not exceed three months or such longer time, if any, as may have been prescribed by the law for the punishment of the said act when committed by one person.