# The Trade Union (Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector) Regulations 2017, Regulation 3: Relevant public sector employer


(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a public authority referred to in paragraph (2) is a relevant public sector employer for the purposes of section 116B of the 1992 Act.
(2) The public authorities are—
(a) any department of the Government of the United Kingdom (excluding the Secret Intelligence Service, the Security Service and the Government Communications Headquarters);
(b) the Scottish Ministers; and
(c) an authority listed, or of a description, in the Schedule.
(3) An authority of a description in the Schedule which is a devolved Welsh authority is not a relevant public sector employer for the purposes of section 116B.
(4) In paragraph (3), “devolved Welsh authority” has the same meaning as in section 157A of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (inserted into that Act by section 4 of the Wales Act 2017).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111155943/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-trade-union-deduction-of-union-subscriptions-from-wages-in-the-public-sector-regulations-2017/regulation-3
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.