74.—(1) The instrument of amalgamation or transfer must be approved by the Certification Officer and shall be submitted to him for approval before a ballot of the members of any amalgamating union, or (as the case may be) of the transferor union, is held on the resolution to approve the instrument.
[F1(2) If the Certification Officer is satisfied—
(a)that an instrument of amalgamation complies with the requirements of any regulations in force under this Part, and
(b)that he is not prevented from approving the instrument of amalgamation by paragraph (3),
he shall approve the instrument.
(3) The Certification Officer shall not approve an instrument of amalgamation if it appears to him that the proposed name of the amalgamated union is the same as the name under which another organisation—
(a)was on 30th June 1992 registered as a trade union under the Trade Union Acts (Northern Ireland) 1871 to 1965, or
(b)is for the time being entered in the list of trade unions or in the list of employers' associations kept under the 1992 Order or under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c.52),
or if the proposed name is one so nearly resembling any such name as to be likely to deceive the public.
(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply if the proposed name is the name of one of the amalgamating unions.
(5) If the Certification Officer is satisfied that an instrument of transfer complies with the requirements of any regulations in force under this Part, he shall approve the instrument.]