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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-regulations-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/139",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Union Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-act-2016-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-regulations-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring into force specified provisions of the Trade Union Act 2016 (c. 15) (“the 2016 Act”). These are the third commencement regulations made under the 2016 Act. Certain provisions came into force on the passing of the 2016 Act.\nRegulation 2 commences a number of provisions of the 2016 Act that—\nrequire 50% turnout in all industrial action ballots;\nrequire 40% support in industrial action ballots in important public services;\nrequire information to be included on the voting paper;\nrequire information to be provided to members about the result of the industrial action ballot;\nrequire information to be included about industrial action in the union’s annual return to the Certification Officer;\nprovide for two weeks’ notice to be given to employers of industrial action;\nprovide for the expiry of the mandate for industrial action;\nsets out the requirements on unions for the supervision of picketing;\nrequire persons who join a trade union after a transition period to make an active choice before contributing to a union’s political fund;\nrequire information to be included about expenditure of a union’s political funds in the union’s annual return to the Certification Officer;\nenable a Minister of the Crown to make regulations requiring relevant public sector employers with one or more trade union representatives to publish information relating to facility time;\nenable a Minister of the Crown to make regulations specifying relevant public sector employers for the purposes of restricting the deduction of union subscriptions from wages in the public sector;\nprovide for enforcement by the Certification Officer of new annual return requirements in relation to industrial action and political funds; and\nmake minor and consequential amendments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/139/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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