The Registration of Political Parties (Access to the Register) Regulations 1998

Made: 21st November 1998

Laid before Parliament: 30th November 1998

Coming into force: 14th January 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11 of the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998¹ hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Political Parties (Access to the Register) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 14th January 1999.

2

The registrar shall keep the register open to inspection by any person on payment of a fee of £5 at the Information Centre, Companies House, Crown Way, Cardiff, during the hours when that Centre is open to the public.

3

• (1) The registrar shall, on request and on payment of a fee of £20, provide a copy of the register.

• (2) The registrar shall, on request and on payment of a fee of £5 for each party to which the request relates, provide a copy of the entry in the register in respect of any such party.

• (3) Where the register includes an index to the names of all the parties registered in it, the registrar shall, on request and on payment of a fee of £5, provide a copy of that index.

Signed

George Howarth — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — 21st November 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations provide for access to the register of political parties which is maintained under section 1 of the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998. Regulation 2 provides for inspection of the register on payment of the prescribed fee. Regulation 3 provides for the provision of copies of the whole or part of the register on payment of the prescribed fee.

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