{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-ballots-and-elections-independent-scrutineer-qualifications-amendment-order-1989/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-ballots-and-elections-independent-scrutineer-qualifications-amendment-order-1989/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/31",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Union Ballots and Elections (Independent Scrutineer Qualifications) (Amendment) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-union-ballots-and-elections-independent-scrutineer-qualifications-amendment-order-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 15 of the Employment Act 1988 requires certain ballots and elections held by trade unions to be supervised by a qualified independent person (known as a“scrutineer”) appointed by the trade union. The Trade Union Ballots and Elections (Independent Scrutineer Qualifications) Order 1988 (“the principal Order”) specifies the conditions which a person must meet to be eligible for appointment as a scrutineer and specifies three bodies by name as being eligible for appointment as scrutineers.\nThe purpose of the amendment contained in this Order is to secure that an individual potentially qualified to be a scrutineer under the principal Order will not be prevented from acting as a scrutineer in relation to ballots and elections held by a trade union by reason only that the office of auditor of a trade union may for some purposes be regarded as an office of that union.\nThe Order comes into force on 1st February 1989, the same date as that on which section 15 and the principal Order come into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/31/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:51:25.850022+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}