The Registered Parties (Non-constituent and Non-affiliated Organisations) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3183

REGISTRATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES

The Registered Parties (Non-constituent and Non-affiliated Organisations) Order 2000

Made

4th December 2000

Laid before Parliament

4th December 2000

Coming into force

14th December 2000

The Secretary of State in pursuance of section 26(8)(c) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000(1) hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Registered Parties (Non-constituent and Non-affiliated Organisations) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 14th December 2000.

2.  The organisations specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order and the organisations of a description specified in Part II of that Schedule are hereby specified as falling within section 26(8) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (organisations which are not constituent or affiliated organisations in relation to a party for the purposes of schemes falling within section 26).

Mike O'Brien

Parliamentary Under-Secretary State

Home Office

4th December 2000

SCHEDULE ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE NOT CONSTITUENT OR AFFILIATED IN RELATION TO A PARTY FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTION 26 OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES, ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUMS ACT 2000

PART I SPECIFIED ORGANISATIONS

• Association of Conservative Peers

• Black and Asian Society

• Christian Socialist Movement

• Conservative Animal Welfare Group

• Conservative Christian Fellowship

• Conservative Disability Group

• Conservative Foreign Affairs Forum

• Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council

• Conservative Friends of Israel

• Conservative Lawyers

• Conservative Medical Society

• Conservative National Education Society

• Conservative Transport Group

• Conservatives at Work

• Fabian Society

• Hurst Park Residents Association

• Labour Housing Group

• Labour Irish Group

• National Union of Labour and Socialist Clubs

• Poale Zion

• Socialist Health Association

• Socialist Education Association

• Socialist Environment and Resources Association

• Society of Labour Lawyers

• The Association of Conservative Clubs

• The Conservative Councillors Association

• The Countryside Forum

• The 1922 Committee

• The Society of Conservative Accountants

• The Tory Green Initiative

PART II ORGANISATIONS OF SPECIFIED DESCRIPTION

• Any organisation which is not a permissible donor by virtue of coming within paragraph (b), (e), (f) or (h) of section 54(2) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

• Any branch of a students' organisation which is wholly or mainly funded from resources provided by a students' union within the meaning of Part II of the Education Act 1994(2), and defined by section 20 of that Act.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 26(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 prohibits the registration of a party unless it has adopted a scheme which sets out the arrangements for regulating its financial affairs for the purposes of that Act. The scheme must, in particular, determine whether the party is to be taken to consist of a central organisation with one or more separate accounting units, as distinct from a single organisation (section 26(2)(b)). “Accounting unit” is defined by section 26(11)(a), by reference to section 26(2)(b), as a constituent or affiliated organisation each of which is to be responsible for its own financial affairs.

Section 26(8) lists organisations which are not to be taken as a constituent or affiliated organisation in relation to a party. This Order exercises the power in section 26(8)(c) to specify organisations falling within this provision and descriptions of organisations.

(1)

2000 c. 41.

(2)

1994 c. 30.