(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order is the third commencement order made under the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (“the Act”). The first was the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (Commencement and Transitional Provision No. 1) Order 2014(1) and the second was the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 (Commencement No.2 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014(2).
Article 2 brings all the remaining provisions of Part 1 of the Act (registration of consultant lobbyists) into force on the 1st April 2015. Some of the provisions in Part 1 of the Act which are commenced by article 2 were commenced for certain purposes on Royal Assent, and are therefore commenced by this Order for remaining purposes.