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  Draft Trade Union Act 2016 (Political Funds) (Transition Period) - Transition Period for Opt-In Requirement for Contributions to Union Political Funds
  
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  @ MP voted aye to set a one year transition period, starting on the 1st of March 2017, relating to the requirement for trade union members to opt-in to contributions to a union's "political fund".
  @ MP voed no against setting  a one year transition period, starting on the 1st of March 2017, relating to the requirement for trade union members to opt-in to contributions to a union's "political fund".
  
  The majority of MPs voted to set a one year transition period, starting on the 1st of March 2017, relating to the requirement for trade union members to opt-in to contributions to a union's "political fund".
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That the [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111151983/contents draft Trade Union Act 2016 (Political Funds) (Transition Period) Regulations 2017], which were laid before this House on 5 December 2016, be approved.
  
  The regulations set a one year transition period, starting on the 1st of March 2017, for the requirement for trade union members to opt-in to contributions to a union's "political fund"[1]. A trade union wishing to spend money on party political activities must set up a separate political fund for financing any such expenditure[2]. 
  
  The transition period was provided for by [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/15/section/11/enacted section 11(5) of the Trade Union Act 2016].
  
  
  
  
  * [1] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111151983/memorandum/contents Explanatory memorandum to The Trade Union Act 2016 (Political Funds) (Transition Period) Regulations 2017]
  * [2] [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/245595/10-817-trade-union-political-funds-guide.pdf Trade Union Political Funds, A guide for trade unions, their 
  members and others, Department for Business Innovation and Skills, 2010]
   
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