Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill — Clause 36 — Provision of Union Membership Audit Certificates to Regulator — 11 Sep 2013 at 17:00

The majority of MPs voted to require a register of the names and addresses of members of a trade union to be sent to the regulator, the Certification Officer, for each annual reporting period rather than just in the event of a complaint.

MPs were considering the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill^[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:

• Amendment 103, page 37, line 39, leave out
• ‘in relation to each reporting period’
• and insert
• ‘if
• (a) a formal complaint is received by the Certification Officer that would result in the Certification Officer requiring a membership audit in relation to the reporting period when the complaint was verified and
• (b) the Certification Officer determined that a certificate was required.’

The paragraph within Clause 36^[2] which would have been amended stated:

• A trade union required to maintain a register of the names and addresses of its members by section 24 must send to the Certification Officer a membership audit certificate in relation to each reporting period.

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• [1] Parliament's webpage on the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill
• [2] Clause 36 of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill as at the time of the vote

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