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Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 936

TRADE UNIONS

The Certification Officer (Amendment of Fees) Regulations 1993

Made

29th March 1993

Laid before Parliament

8th April 1993

Coming into force

1st May 1993

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 108 and section 293 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992(1) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, and as respects regulation 2, 3 and 4 with the approval of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Certification Officer (Amendment of Fees) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st May 1993.

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-

"the Principal Regulations" means the Trade Union and Employers' Associations (Amalgamations, etc.) Regulations 1975(2):

"the 1992 Act" means the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.

Amendment of fees payable to the Certification Officer

2. In paragraph (1) of regulation 11 of the Principal Regulations (fees to accompany an application for approval of a proposed instrument of amalgamation or transfer) for the words "£1241" there shall be substituted the words "£1347".

3. In paragraph (2) of regulation 11 of the Principal Regulations for the words "£71" there shall be substituted the words "£90" (fee on an application for approval of a change of name) and for the words "£38" there shall be substituted the words "£55" (fee for every inspection on the same day of documents kept by the Certification Officer under Chapter VII of the 1992 Act relating to one and the same organisation).

4. In regulation 12 of the Principal Regulations (fee for the entry of the name of an amalgamated organisation in the lists maintained by the Certification Officer where the name of each of the amalgamating organisations is already so entered) for the words "£110" there shall be substituted the words "£127".

5. The fee of £291 is hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 3(2) of the 1992 Act (fee on application of an organisation of workers to have its name entered in the list of trade unions).

6. The fee of £291 is hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 124(2) of the 1992 Act (fee on application of an organisation of employers to have its name entered in the list of employers' associations).

7. The fee of £436 is hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 6(1) of the 1992 Act (fee on application by a trade union for a certificate of independence).

8. The Certification Officer (Amendment of Fees) Regulations 1992(3) are hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

Michael Forsyth

Minister of State,

Department of Employment

23rd March 1993

We approve regulations 2, 3 and 4.

Irvine Patnick

Tim Kirkhope

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

29th March 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st May 1993 make alterations to the fees payable to the Certification Officer. These fees are altered as follows:-

(a)the fee payable on application for approval of a proposed instrument of amalgamation or transfer is increased from £1241 to £1347;

(b)the fee payable on an application for approval of a change of name is increased from £71 to £90;

(c)the fee for an inspection of documents kept by the Certification Officer in respect of trade union, or employers' association amalgamations is increased from £38 to £55;

(d)the fee for the entry of the name of an amalgamated organisation in the lists maintained by the Certification Officer where the name of each of the amalgamating organisations is already entered is increased from £110 to £127;

(e)the fee on application by an organisation of workers to have its name entered in the list of trade unions maintained by the Certification Officer is increased from £288 to £291;

(f)the fee on application by an organisation of employers to have its name entered on the list of employers' associations maintained by the Certification Officer is increased from £288 to £291;

(g)the fee payable on an application by a trade union for a certificate of independence is reduced from £448 to £436.

(2)

S.I. 1975/536, amended by S.I. 1978/1344, 1981/1631, 1988/310, 1989/205, 1990/339, 1991/484 and 1992/461 (these Regulations were made under section 7 of the Trade Union (Amalgamation, etc.) Act 1964 (c. 24) which has now been superseded by section 108 of the 1992 Act.)

(3)

S.I. 1992/461.


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