Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 1990, increase the fee payable to the Certification Officer on an application for approval of a proposed instrument of amalgamation or transfer from £200 to £290 and the fee payable to him on an application by a trade union for a certificate of independence from £225 to £275.

Other fees payable to the Certification Officer but not increased by these Regulations are as follows—

(a)

£40 on an application by an organisation of workers or of employers to have its name entered in the list of trade unions or employers' associations maintained by the Certification Officer (S.I. 1988/310);

(b)

£12.50 for the entry of the name of an amalgamated organisation in those lists where the name of each of the amalgamating organisations is already so entered (S.I. 1981/1631);

(c)

£14 for the approval by the Certification Officer of a change of name by a trade union or employers' association (S.I. 1988/310); and

(d)

£3 for an inspection of documents kept by the Certification Officer under the Trade Union (Amalgamations, etc.) Act 1964 (S.I. 1988/310).