Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 3183

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

(The document as of February, 2008)

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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.

Notes:

[1] 2000 c. 41.back

[2] 1994 c. 30.back

ISBN 0 11 018886 1

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