The Membership Audit Certificate (Qualified Independent Person) (Specified Conditions) Order 2015

Section 24ZB of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”) (inserted by the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (c. 4)) provides that a trade union with more than 10,000 members and that is subject to the duty in section 24 of the 1992 Act (duty to maintain register of members’ names and addresses) must appoint an assurer. The assurer must be a qualified independent person as defined in section 24ZB(3) of the 1992 Act. A qualified independent person must meet conditions specified by the Secretary of State or be specified by name. This Order specifies for the purposes of section 24ZB(3) the conditions that a person must meet to be a qualified independent person.