The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 954 (C. 59)

Consultant Lobbying

The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2015

Made

25th March 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 45(1) and (5)(a) of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014(1), the Lord President of the Council makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2015.

Provisions coming into force

2.  Part 1 of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (registration of consultant lobbyists), so far as not already in force, comes into force on 1st April 2015.

Signed by Authority of the Lord President of the Council

Sam Gyimah

Minister for the Constitution

Cabinet Office

25th March 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is the third commencement order made under the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (“the Act”). The first was the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (Commencement and Transitional Provision No. 1) Order 2014(2) and the second was the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (Commencement No.2 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014(3).

Article 2 brings all the remaining provisions of Part 1 of the Act (registration of consultant lobbyists) into force on the 1st April 2015. Some of the provisions in Part 1 of the Act which are commenced by article 2 were commenced for certain purposes on Royal Assent, and are therefore commenced by this Order for remaining purposes.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force, or brought into force to their fullest extent by commencement order made before the date of this Order:

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. Number
Section 2	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Section 3	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Section 21	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Section 24	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Section 25	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Section 26	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Section 31	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Section 32	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Section 36	1st July 2014	2014/1236
Section 37	1st July 2014	2014/1236
Section 38	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Section 40	6th April 2015	2015/717
Section 41	6th April 2015	2015/717
Section 42	1st June 2016	2015/717
Section 43	1st June 2016	2015/717
Schedule 1	23rd May 2014	2014/1236
Schedule 2	23rd May 2014	2014/1236

(1)

2014 c.4.

(2)

SI 2014/1236.

(3)

SI 2015/717.