---
title: "International Parliamentary Organisations (Registration) Act 1989"
id: 01f2721f-e65c-4d62-b0fa-536a3baeb272
authority: uk
place: "United Kingdom"
applies_also_from: []
kind: statute
in_force: true
publisher_url: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/19
attribution: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
solon_url: https://solon.orangecat.ch/law/01f2721f-e65c-4d62-b0fa-536a3baeb272
language: en
in_force_from: 1991-02-01
date_basis: publisher
status: consolidated
source_url: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/19/data.xml
read_on: 2026-11-08
sha256: cc665b37b92a9594fbbcd0124b980c0d6fc3f21c42ad74de35e8032a257f041e
provisions: 4
---

# International Parliamentary Organisations (Registration) Act 1989

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

International Parliamentary Organisations (Registration) Act 1989
1989 c. 19
An Act to set up a register of publicly-financed international parliamentary organisations which are in receipt of an annual grant-in-aid to fund both British and international secretariats and which draw their membership from both Houses of Parliament.
[21st July 1989]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

## 1 Register. {#section-1}

(1) The Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament each financial year a register of organisations listed in the Schedule to this Act, these being publicly-financed international parliamentary organisations which are in receipt of an annual grant-in-aid to fund both British and international secretariats and which draw their membership from both Houses of Parliament.
(2) The register shall include the following—
(a) the name of the organisation; and
(b) the amount of money allocated to that organisation in that financial year.

## 2 Short title. {#section-2}

This Act may be cited as the International Parliamentary Organisations (Registration) Act 1989.

## SCHEDULE {#schedule}

Section 1.
The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
The Inter-Parliamentary Union