This Section repeals section 12 of the Trade Union Act 2016 which required trade unions to provide details of their political expenditure in their annual return to the Certification Officer. This information must be provided where a union spends more than £2000 per annum from its political fund.
	Subsection (1) provides that the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 is amended according to subsections (2) to (6) below.
	Subsection (2) removes section 32ZB of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 which sets out the information to be included in the trade union’s annual return on political expenditure.
	Subsection (3) removes references to section 32ZB from section 32ZC which provided the enforcement mechanism for the Certification Officer if a trade union failed to comply with the requirement to provide information about their political expenditure.
	Subsection (4) removes the reference to section 23ZB from section 45 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, so that failure to comply with the requirement to provide information about political expenditure is no longer an offence.
	Subsection (5) removes reference to section 32ZB in section 131 so the requirement to provide information about political expenditure no longer applies to employers’ associations.
	Subsection (6) removes reference to section 32ZB so the requirement to provide information about political expenditure no longer applies to federated employers’ associations.
	Subsection (7) consequentially removes section 12 from the Trade Union Act 2016.
Part 4: Trade Unions and Industrial Action, etc Certification Officer Section 80: Annual returns: removal of provision about political expenditure