25 Remedy for failure: application to Certification Officer

25  Remedy for failure: application to Certification Officer

(1)     A member of a trade union who claims that the union has failed to comply with any of the requirements of section 24 [or 24A] (duties with respect to register of members' names and addresses) may apply to the Certification Officer for a declaration to that effect.

(2)     On an application being made to him, the Certification Officer shall—

(a)     make such enquiries as he thinks fit, and

(b)     . . . give the applicant and the trade union an opportunity to be heard,

and may make or refuse the declaration asked for.

(3)     If he makes a declaration he shall specify in it the provisions with which the trade union has failed to comply.

(4)     Where he makes a declaration and is satisfied that steps have been taken by the union with a view to remedying the declared failure, or securing that a failure of the same or any similar kind does not occur in future, or that the union

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