| Short Title: | Iron and Steel Act 1967 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Steel Corporation and the transfer thereto of the securities of certain companies engaged in the production of steel and, in connection therewith, to revive certain provisions of the Iron and Steel Act 1949 and continue others in force and to amend certain of the revived provisions; to make fresh provision for the control of the provision of iron and steel production facilities; to dissolve the Iron and Steel Board and amend the provisions of the Iron and Steel Act 1953 concerning the Iron and Steel Holding and Realisation Agency; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. |
| Year: | 1967 |
| Citation: | 1967 c. 17 |
| Royal Assent: | 22 March 1967 |
| Use New Uk-Leg: | no |
The Iron and Steel Act 1967 (c. 17) was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which regulated corporate governance in the iron and steel industries. It required that employees had voting rights for the board of directors.
Schedule 4, Part V, stated that the corporation was required to participate in discussions with the workforce. Under this provision, worker directors were introduced in 1969.
The Iron and Steel Act 1949 had been enacted by the post-war Labour government to nationalized elements of the British iron and steel industry. It established the Iron and Steel Corporation to acquire certain companies.
Nationalisation of iron and steel production had been strongly opposed by the Conservative opposition. On returning to power in October 1951 they planned to denationalise and return the industry to the private sector. This policy was enacted through the Iron and Steel Act 1953 which repealed the Iron and Steel Act 1949 and dissolved the Iron and Steel Corporation.
The 1953 act remained in force until the Labour government re-nationalised the iron and steel industry in 1967 through the Iron and Steel Act 1967.