This Section repeals section 18 of the Trade Union Act 2016. This allowed the Certification Officer to enforce annual return requirements and gave the Certification Officer the power to make a declaration that a trade union has failed to comply with the Trade Union Act 2016 annual return requirements in relation to details of industrial action and political expenditure.
	Subsection (1) provides that the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 is amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (5) below.
	Subsection (2) removes section 32ZC of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, removing the Certification Officer’s powers to enforce the requirement for details of political expenditure (32ZB of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992) and industrial action (32ZA the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992) to be included in the annual return.
	Subsections (3)-(5) remove references to 32ZA, 32ZB and 32ZC.
	Subsection (6) consequentially removes section 18 of the Trade Union Act 2016 and subsections (3) and (4) of Section 63 of this Act (which provide for surviving references to section 32ZA of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 in relation to details of industrial action).
Part 4: Trade Unions and Industrial Action, etc Certification Officer Section 81: Removal of powers to enforce requirements relating to annual returns