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I agree with your Lordships tat this appeal must be dismissedLord Roskill my lords this appeal arises out of the exercise by the respondent.The minister for the Civil Service of a specific power vested in her by article 4 ofthe Civil Service Order in Council 1982 That specific power purported to beexercised orally on 22 December 1983 The terms in which it is claimed to havebeen exercised are contained In a letter dated 7 February 1984 from Sir RobertArmstrong writing as Head of the Civil Service to the Director of the GovernmentCommunications Headquarters at Cheltenham (GCHQ) The exercise of thepower took the form of:Instruction that the condition of service under which civil servants are employedas members of the staff of the Government Communications Headquarters shallbe varied so as to provide that such civil servant shall not be member of anytrade union other than a departmental staff association approved by yourselfThe making of this change in the condition of service of civil savants employed atGCHQ was announced in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State forForeign and Commonwealth Affairs on 25 January 1984 and on the same day heissued certificates under section 138 (4) of the Employment Protection(Consolidation) Act 1978 certifying that employment at GCHQ was to beexcepted from those section for the purpose of safeguarding national security.On the same day the Directory of GCHQ informed his staff in writing of thedecision of the issue of the certificates and of the various options which werethereafter to remain open to them.My Lords the background to these action in December 1983 and January 1984 isfully set out in the speech of my noble and learned friend lord Fraser ofTullybelton which I gratefully adopt it requires no repetition. Nor does the historyof the antecedent rights of those concerned to join trade union. That theinstruction thus given and the certificates thus issued drastically altered the tradeunion rights of those civil savants concerned cannot be doubted Nor can it bedoubted that the issue of the instruction and of the certifications and of thecertificates without prior warning or consultation of any kind with the various trade349

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