The Certification Officer is responsible for
- Maintaining a list of trade unions and employers' associations
- Receiving and scrutinising annual returns from trade unions and employers' associations
- Determining complaints concerning trade union elections, certain other ballots and breaches of trade union rules
- Ensuring observance of statutory requirements governing mergers between trade unions and between employers' associations
- Overseeing the political funds and the finances of trade unions and employers' associations
- Certifying the independence of trade unions