The Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (Amalgamations, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1978 No. 1344

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1978 No. 1344

TRADE UNIONS

The Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (Amalgamations, Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1978

Made

13th September 1978

Laid before Parliament

25th September 1978

Coming into Operation

1st November 1978

The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 7 of the Trade Union (Amalgamations, etc.) Act 1964 and section 8(4) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and as respects Regulation 4 with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations amending the Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (Amalgamations, etc.) Regulations 1975 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Regulations"):-

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (Amalgamations, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1978 and shall come into operation on 1st November 1978.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to an Act of Parliament.

Amendment of principal Regulations

2. In Regulation 2(2) of the principal Regulations, the definition of "the Registrar" shall be deleted and the following definition substituted:-

"-�the Certification Officer' means the officer appointed under section 7(1) of the Employment Protection Act 1975 or any assistant certification officer appointed under section 7(4) of the said Act to whom, in accordance with section 7(5) of the said Act, functions have been delegated in relation to any matter authorised or required to be dealt with under these Regulations.".

3. In the principal Regulations for the expression "the Registrar", wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted the expression "the Certification Officer".

4. For Regulation 11 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following Regulation:-

"11. The following fees shall be payable in advance-

For registration of an instrument of amalgamation or transfer£40
For approval of a change of name£3.50
For every inspection on the same day of documents kept by the Certification Officer under the 1964 Act relating to one and the same organisation50p.".

5. For Regulation 12 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following Regulation:-

"12. A fee of £5 shall be payable for the entry of an amalgamated organisation on the list of trade unions or employers' associations maintained by the Certification Officer under section 8 of the 1974 Act where each of the amalgamating organisations is already entered on the list.".

Signed by order of the Secretary of State.

John Grant

Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Employment

7th September 1978

We approve Regulation 4.

J. Dormand

T. E. Graham

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

13th September 1978

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st November 1978, increase the fees payable to the Certification Officer in connection with amalgamations and transfers of engagements between trade unions or unincorporated employers' associations, for the approval of changes of name by listed trade unions and employers' associations and for the inspection of documents.


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