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Charities Act 1993
1993 CHAPTER 10
An Act to consolidate the Charitable Trustees Incorporation Act 1872 and, except for
certain spent or transitional provisions, the Charities Act 1960 and Part I of the Charities
Act 1992. [27th May 1993] 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:—
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1 Act extended (1.10.1998) by 1992 c. 13 , s. 22A(1)(2) (as added (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 30 , s. 41(2) )
(with s. 42(8)); S.I. 1998/2215 , art. 2
C2 Act modified (8.8.1998) by 1998 c. 31 , s. 11 , Sch. 1 para. 10 (with ss. 138(9) , 144(6) ); S.I. 1998/2048 ,
art. 2
C3 Act excluded (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31 , s. 23(3) ; S.I. 1999/2323 , art. 2(1) , Sch. 1
C4 Act amended (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31 , s. 23(1)(2) ; S.I. 1999/2323 , art. 2(1) , Sch. 1
Act: power to modify conferred (2.4.2002) by 2000 c. 39 , s. 7(2) ; S.I. 2001/766 , art. 2(1)(a) (subject to
transitional provisions in art. 3 )
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1 Act extended (1.10.1998) by 1992 c. 13 , s. 22A(1)(2) (as added (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 30 , s. 41(2) )
(with s. 42(8)); S.I. 1998/2215 , art. 2
C2 Act modified (8.8.1998) by 1998 c. 31 , s. 11 , Sch. 1 para. 10 (with ss. 138(9) , 144(6) ); S.I. 1998/2048 ,
art. 2
C3 Act excluded (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31 , s. 23(3) ; S.I. 1999/2323 , art. 2(1) , Sch. 1
C4 Act amended (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31 , s. 23(1)(2) ; S.I. 1999/2323 , art. 2(1) , Sch. 1
Act: power to modify conferred (2.4.2002) by 2000 c. 39 , s. 7(2) ; S.I. 2001/766 , art. 2(1)(a) (subject to
transitional provisions in art. 3 )

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PART I
THE C HARITY C OMMISSIONERS AND THE O FFICIAL C USTODIAN FOR C HARITIES
1 The Charity Commissioners.
(1) There shall continue to be a body of Charity Commissioners for England and Wales,
and they shall have such functions as are conferred on them by this Act in addition to
any functions under any other enactment for the time being in force.
(2) The provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the constitution
and proceedings of the Commissioners and other matters relating to the Commissioners
and their officers and employees.
(3) The Commissioners shall (without prejudice to their specific powers and duties under
other enactments) have the general function of promoting the effective use of charitable
resources by encouraging the development of better methods of administration, by
giving charity trustees information or advice on any matter affecting the charity and by
investigating and checking abuses.
(4) It shall be the general object of the Commissioners so to act in the case of any charity
(unless it is a matter of altering its purposes) as best to promote and make effective the
work of the charity in meeting the needs designated by its trusts; but the Commissioners
shall not themselves have power to act in the administration of a charity.
(5) The Commissioners shall, as soon as possible after the end of every year, make to the
Secretary of State a report on their operations during that year, and he shall lay a copy
of the report before each House of Parliament.
2 The official custodian for charities.
(1) There shall continue to be an officer known as the official custodian for charities (in this
Act referred to as “the official custodian”) whose function it shall be to act as trustee
for charities in the cases provided for by this Act; and the official custodian shall be
by that name a corporation sole having perpetual succession and using an official seal
which shall be officially and judicially noticed.
(2) Such officer of the Commissioners as they may from time to time designate shall be
the official custodian.
(3) The official custodian shall perform his duties in accordance with such general or
special directions as may be given him by the Commissioners, and his expenses (except
those re-imbursed to him or recovered by him as trustee for any charity) shall be
defrayed by the Commissioners.
(4) Anything which is required to or may be done by, to or before the official custodian
may be done by, to or before any officer of the Commissioners generally or specially
authorised by them to act for him during a vacancy in his office or otherwise.
(5) The official custodian shall not be liable as trustee for any charity in respect of any loss
or of the mis-application of any property unless it is occasioned by or through the wilful
neglect or default of the custodian or of any person acting for him; but the Consolidated
Fund shall be liable to make good to a charity any sums for which the custodian may
be liable by reason of any such neglect or default.

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(6) The official custodian shall keep such books of account and such records in relation
thereto as may be directed by the Treasury and shall prepare accounts in such form, in
such manner and at such times as may be so directed.
(7) The accounts so prepared shall be examined and certified by the Comptroller and
Auditor General, and the report to be made by the Commissioners to the Secretary of
State for any year shall include a copy of the accounts so prepared for any period ending
in or with the year and of the certificate and report of the Comptroller and Auditor
General with respect to those accounts.
PART II
REGISTRATION AND N AMES OF C HARITIES
Registration of charities
3 The register of charities.
(1) The Commissioners shall continue to keep a register of charities, which shall be kept
by them in such manner as they think fit.
(2) There shall be entered in the register every charity not excepted by subsection (5) below;
and a charity so excepted (other than one excepted by paragraph (a) of that subsection)
may be entered in the register at the request of the charity, but (whether or not it was
excepted at the time of registration) may at any time, and shall at the request of the
charity, be removed from the register.
(3) The register shall contain—
(a) the name of every registered charity; and
(b) such other particulars of, and such other information relating to, every such
charity as the Commissioners think fit.
(4) Any institution which no longer appears to the Commissioners to be a charity shall be
removed from the register, with effect, where the removal is due to any change in its
purposes or trusts, from the date of that change; and there shall also be removed from
the register any charity which ceases to exist or does not operate.
(5) The following charities are not required to be registered—
(a) any charity comprised in Schedule 2 to this Act (in this Act referred to as an
“exempt charity”);
(b) any charity which is excepted by order or regulations;
(c) any charity which has neither—
(i) any permanent endowment, nor
(ii) the use or occupation of any land,
and whose income from all sources does not in aggregate amount to more than
£1,000 a year;
and no charity is required to be registered in respect of any registered place of worship.
[F1(5A) In subsection (5) above, paragraph (a) shall be read as referring also to—
(a) any higher education corporation within the meaning of the Education Reform
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(b) any further education corporation within the meaning of the Further and Higher
Education Act 1992. ] [F2[F2(5B) In addition, in subsection (5) above—
(a) paragraph (a) shall be read as referring also to—
(i) any body to which section 23(1)(a) or (b) of the School Standards and
Framework Act 1998 applies, and
(ii) any Education Action Forum established by virtue of section 10(1) of
that Act; and
(b) paragraph (b) shall be read as referring also to any foundation to which
section 23(3) of that Act applies;
but an order of the Commissioners, or regulations made by the Secretary of State, may
provide that section 23(3) of that Act shall cease to apply to any such foundation as is
mentioned in that provision or to any such foundation of a description specified in the
order or regulations. ] (6) With any application for a charity to be registered there shall be supplied to the
Commissioners copies of its trusts (or, if they are not set out in any extant document,
particulars of them), and such other documents or information as may be prescribed by
regulations made by the Secretary of State or as the Commissioners may require for the
purpose of the application.
(7) It shall be the duty—
(a) of the charity trustees of any charity which is not registered nor excepted from
registration to apply for it to be registered, and to supply the documents and
information required by subsection (6) above; and
(b) of the charity trustees (or last charity trustees) of any institution which is for
the time being registered to notify the Commissioners if it ceases to exist, or if
there is any change in its trusts or in the particulars of it entered in the register,
and to supply to the Commissioners particulars of any such change and copies
of any new trusts or alterations of the trusts.
(8) The register (including the entries cancelled when institutions are removed from the
register) shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times; and copies (or
particulars) of the trusts of any registered charity as supplied to the Commissioners
under this section shall, so long as it remains on the register, be kept by them and be
open to public inspection at all reasonable times, except in so far as regulations made
by the Secretary of State otherwise provide.
(9) Where any information contained in the register is not in documentary form,
subsection (8) above shall be construed as requiring the information to be available for
public inspection in legible form at all reasonable times.
(10) If the Commissioners so determine, subsection (8) above shall not apply to any
particular information contained in the register and specified in their determination.
(11) Nothing in the foregoing subsections shall require any person to supply the
Commissioners with copies of schemes for the administration of a charity made
otherwise than by the court, or to notify the Commissioners of any change made with
respect to a registered charity by such a scheme, or require a person, if he refers the
Commissioners to a document or copy already in the possession of the Commissioners,
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of any document need not be supplied to the Commissioners, a copy of it, if it relates to
a registered charity, shall be open to inspection under subsection (8) above as if supplied
to the Commissioners under this section.
(12) If the Secretary of State thinks it expedient to do so—
(a) in consequence of changes in the value of money, or
(b) with a view to extending the scope of the exception provided for by
subsection (5)(c) above,
he may by order amend subsection (5)(c) by substituting a different sum for the sum
for the time being specified there.
(13) The reference in subsection (5)(b) above to a charity which is excepted by order or
regulations is to a charity which—
(a) is for the time being permanently or temporarily excepted by order of the
Commissioners; or
(b) is of a description permanently or temporarily excepted by regulations made
by the Secretary of State,
and which complies with any conditions of the exception.
(14) In this section “ registered place of worship ” means any land or building falling within
section 9 of the M1Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (that is to say, the land and
buildings which if the M2Charities Act 1960 had not been passed, would by virtue of that
section as amended by subsequent enactments be partially exempted from the operation
of the M3Charitable Trusts Act 1853), and for the purposes of this subsection “ building ”
includes part of a building. ] Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1 S. 3(5A) inserted (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 30 , s. 44(1) , Sch. 3 para. 9 (with s. 42(8) ); S.I. 1998/2215 , art.
2
F2 S. 3(5B) inserted (1.2.1999) by 1998 c. 31 , s. 140(1) , Sch. 30 , para. 48 (with ss. 138(9) , 144(6) ); S.I.
1999/120 , art. 2(1) , Sch. 1
Marginal Citations
M1 1855 c. 81 .
M2 1960 c. 58 .
M3 1853 c. 137 .
4 Effect of, and claims and objections to, registration.
(1) An institution shall for all purposes other than rectification of the register be
conclusively presumed to be or to have been a charity at any time when it is or was on
the register of charities.
(2) Any person who is or may be affected by the registration of an institution as a
charity may, on the ground that it is not a charity, object to its being entered by the
Commissioners in the register, or apply to them for it to be removed from the register;
and provision may be made by regulations made by the Secretary of State as to the
manner in which any such objection or application is to be made, prosecuted or dealt
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(3) An appeal against any decision of the Commissioners to enter or not to enter an
institution in the register of charities, or to remove or not to remove an institution from
the register, may be brought in the High Court by the Attorney General, or by the persons
who are or claim to be the charity trustees of the institution, or by any person whose
objection or application under subsection (2) above is disallowed by the decision.
(4) If there is an appeal to the High Court against any decision of the Commissioners to
enter an institution in the register, or not to remove an institution from the register, then
until the Commissioners are satisfied whether the decision of the Commissioners is or
is not to stand, the entry in the register shall be maintained, but shall be in suspense and
marked to indicate that it is in suspense; and for the purposes of subsection (1) above
an institution shall be deemed not to be on the register during any period when the entry
relating to it is in suspense under this subsection.
(5) Any question affecting the registration or removal from the register of an institution
may, notwithstanding that it has been determined by a decision on appeal under
subsection (3) above, be considered afresh by the Commissioners and shall not be
concluded by that decision, if it appears to the Commissioners that there has been a
change of circumstances or that the decision is inconsistent with a later judicial decision,
whether given on such an appeal or not.
5 Status of registered charity (other than small charity) to appear on official
publications etc.
(1) This section applies to a registered charity if its gross income in its last financial year
exceeded [F3£10,000 ].
(2) Where this section applies to a registered charity, the fact that it is a registered charity
shall be stated F4. . . in legible characters—
(a) in all notices, advertisements and other documents issued by or on behalf of the
charity and soliciting money or other property for the benefit of the charity;
(b) in all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders
for money or goods purporting to be signed on behalf of the charity; and
(c) in all bills rendered by it and in all its invoices, receipts and letters of credit.
[F5(2A) The statement required by subsection (2) above shall be in English, except that, in the
case of a document which is otherwise wholly in Welsh, the statement may be in Welsh
if it consists of or includes the words “elusen cofrestredig” (the Welsh equivalent of
“registered charity”). ] (3) Subsection (2)(a) above has effect whether the solicitation is express or implied, and
whether the money or other property is to be given for any consideration or not.
(4) If, in the case of a registered charity to which this section applies, any person issues or
authorises the issue of any document falling within paragraph (a) or (c) of subsection (2)
above [F6which does not contain the statement ] required by that subsection, he shall be
guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3
on the standard scale.
(5) If, in the case of any such registered charity, any person signs any document falling
within paragraph (b) of subsection (2) above [F7which does not contain the statement ] required by that subsection, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

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(6) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (1) above by substituting a
different sum for the sum for the time being specified there.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F3 Figure in s. 5(1) substituted (1.12.1995) by S.I. 1995/2696 , art. 2(2)
F4 Words in s. 5(2) repealed (21.12.1993) by 1993 c. 38 , ss. 32(2) , 35(1) , 36(1) , Sch. 2
F5 S. 5(2A) inserted (21.12.1993) by 1993 c. 38 , ss. 32(3) , 36(1)
F6 Words in s. 5(4) substituted (21.12.1993) by 1993 c. 38 , ss. 32(4) , 36(1)
F7 Words in s. 5(5) substituted (21.12.1993) by 1993 c. 38 , ss. 32(5) , 36(1)
Charity names
6 Power of Commissioners to require charity’s name to be changed.
(1) Where this subsection applies to a charity, the Commissioners may give a direction
requiring the name of the charity to be changed, within such period as is specified in the
direction, to such other name as the charity trustees may determine with the approval
of the Commissioners.
(2) Subsection (1) above applies to a charity if—
(a) it is a registered charity and its name (“the registered name”)—
(i) is the same as, or
(ii) is in the opinion of the Commissioners too like,
the name, at the time when the registered name was entered in the register in
respect of the charity, of any other charity (whether registered or not);
(b) the name of the charity is in the opinion of the Commissioners likely to mislead
the public as to the true nature—
(i) of the purposes of the charity as set out in its trusts, or
(ii) of the activities which the charity carries on under its trusts in pursuit
of those purposes;
(c) the name of the charity includes any word or expression for the time being
specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State and the inclusion in its
name of that word or expression is in the opinion of the Commissioners likely
to mislead the public in any respect as to the status of the charity;
(d) the name of the charity is in the opinion of the Commissioners likely to give
the impression that the charity is connected in some way with Her Majesty’s
Government or any local authority, or with any other body of persons or any
individual, when it is not so connected; or
(e) the name of the charity is in the opinion of the Commissioners offensive;
and in this subsection any reference to the name of a charity is, in relation to a registered
charity, a reference to the name by which it is registered.
(3) Any direction given by virtue of subsection (2)(a) above must be given within twelve
months of the time when the registered name was entered in the register in respect of
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(4) Any direction given under this section with respect to a charity shall be given to the
charity trustees; and on receiving any such direction the charity trustees shall give effect
to it notwithstanding anything in the trusts of the charity.
(5) Where the name of any charity is changed under this section, then (without prejudice to
section 3(7)(b) above) it shall be the duty of the charity trustees forthwith to notify the
Commissioners of the charity’s new name and of the date on which the change occurred.
(6) A change of name by a charity under this section does not affect any rights or obligations
of the charity; and any legal proceedings that might have been continued or commenced
by or against it in its former name may be continued or commenced by or against it
in its new name.
(7) Section 26(3) of the M4Companies Act 1985 (minor variations in names to be
disregarded) shall apply for the purposes of this section as if the reference to
section 26(1)(c) of that Act were a reference to subsection (2)(a) above.
(8) Any reference in this section to the charity trustees of a charity shall, in relation to a
charity which is a company, be read as a reference to the directors of the company.
(9) Nothing in this section applies to an exempt charity.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M4 1985 c. 6 .
7 Effect of direction under s. 6 where charity is a company.
(1) Where any direction is given under section 6 above with respect to a charity which is a
company, the direction shall be taken to require the name of the charity to be changed
by resolution of the directors of the company.
(2) Section 380 of the M5Companies Act 1985 (registration etc. of resolutions and
agreements) shall apply to any resolution passed by the directors in compliance with
any such direction.
(3) Where the name of such a charity is changed in compliance with any such direction,
the registrar of companies—
(a) shall, subject to section 26 of the Companies Act 1985 (prohibition on
registration of certain names), enter the new name on the register of companies
in place of the former name, and
(b) shall issue a certificate of incorporation altered to meet the circumstances of
the case;
and the change of name has effect from the date on which the altered certificate is issued.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M5 1985 c. 6 .

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PART III
COMMISSIONERS ’ I NFORMATION POWERS
8 General power to institute inquiries.
(1) The Commissioners may from time to time institute inquiries with regard to charities
or a particular charity or class of charities, either generally or for particular purposes,
but no such inquiry shall extend to any exempt charity.
(2) The Commissioners may either conduct such an inquiry themselves or appoint a person
to conduct it and make a report to them.
(3) For the purposes of any such inquiry the Commissioners, or a person appointed by them
to conduct it, may direct any person (subject to the provisions of this section)—
(a) to furnish accounts and statements in writing with respect to any matter in
question at the inquiry, being a matter on which he has or can reasonably
obtain information, or to return answers in writing to any questions or inquiries
addressed to him on any such matter, and to verify any such accounts,
statements or answers by statutory declaration;
(b) to furnish copies of documents in his custody or under his control which relate
to any matter in question at the inquiry, and to verify any such copies by
statutory declaration;
(c) to attend at a specified time and place and give evidence or produce any such
documents.
(4) For the purposes of any such inquiry evidence may be taken on oath, and the person
conducting the inquiry may for that purpose administer oaths, or may instead of
administering an oath require the person examined to make and subscribe a declaration
of the truth of the matters about which he is examined.
(5) The Commissioners may pay to any person the necessary expenses of his attendance to
give evidence or produce documents for the purpose of an inquiry under this section,
and a person shall not be required in obedience to a direction under paragraph (c) of
subsection (3) above to go more than ten miles from his place of residence unless those
expenses are paid or tendered to him.
(6) Where an inquiry has been held under this section, the Commissioners may either—
(a) cause the report of the person conducting the inquiry, or such other statement
of the results of the inquiry as they think fit, to be printed and published, or
(b) publish any such report or statement in some other way which is calculated
in their opinion to bring it to the attention of persons who may wish to make
representations to them about the action to be taken.
(7) The council of a county or district, the Common Council of the City of London and the
council of a London borough may contribute to the expenses of the Commissioners in
connection with inquiries under this section into local charities in the council’s area.
9 Power to call for documents and search records.
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(a) require any person to furnish them with any information in his possession which
relates to any charity and is relevant to the discharge of their functions or of the
functions of the official custodian;
(b) require any person who has in his custody or under his control any document
which relates to any charity and is relevant to the discharge of their functions
or of the functions of the official custodian—
(i) to furnish them with a copy of or extract from the document, or
(ii) (unless the document forms part of the records or other documents of
a court or of a public or local authority) to transmit the document itself
to them for their inspection.
(2) Any officer of the Commissioners, if so authorised by them, shall be entitled without
payment to inspect and take copies of or extracts from the records or other documents
of any court, or of any public registry or office of records, for any purpose connected
with the discharge of the functions of the Commissioners or of the official custodian.
(3) The Commissioners shall be entitled without payment to keep any copy or extract
furnished to them under subsection (1) above; and where a document transmitted to
them under that subsection for their inspection relates only to one or more charities
and is not held by any person entitled as trustee or otherwise to the custody of it, the
Commissioners may keep it or may deliver it to the charity trustees or to any other
person who may be so entitled.
(4) No person properly having the custody of documents relating only to an exempt charity
shall be required under subsection (1) above to transmit to the Commissioners any of
those documents, or to furnish any copy of or extract from any of them.
(5) The rights conferred by subsection (2) above shall, in relation to information recorded
otherwise than in legible form, include the right to require the information to be made
available in legible form for inspection or for a copy or extract to be made of or from it.
10 Disclosure of information to and by Commissioners.
(1) Subject to subsection (2) below and to any express restriction imposed by or under any
other enactment, a body or person to whom this section applies may disclose to the
Charity Commissioners any information received by that body or person under or for the
purposes of any enactment, where the disclosure is made by the body or person for the
purpose of enabling or assisting the Commissioners to discharge any of their functions.
(2) Subsection (1) above shall not have effect in relation to the Commissioners of Customs
and Excise or the Commissioners of Inland Revenue; but either of those bodies of
Commissioners (“the relevant body”) may disclose to the Charity Commissioners the
following information—
(a) the name and address of any institution which has for any purpose been treated
by the relevant body as established for charitable purposes;
(b) information as to the purposes of an institution and the trusts under which it is
established or regulated, where the disclosure is made by the relevant body in
order to give or obtain assistance in determining whether the institution ought
for any purpose to be treated as established for charitable purposes; and
(c) information with respect to an institution which has for any purpose been
treated as so established but which appears to the relevant body—
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(ii) to be, or to have been, applying any of its funds for purposes which
are not charitable.
(3) In subsection (2) above, any reference to an institution shall, in relation to the
Commissioners of Inland Revenue, be construed as a reference to an institution in
England and Wales.
(4) Subject to subsection (5) below, the Charity Commissioners may disclose to a body or
person to whom this section applies any information received by them under or for the
purposes of any enactment, where the disclosure is made by the Commissioners—
(a) for any purpose connected with the discharge of their functions, and
(b) for the purpose of enabling or assisting that body or person to discharge any
of its or his functions.
(5) Where any information disclosed to the Charity Commissioners under subsection (1)
or (2) above is so disclosed subject to any express restriction on the disclosure of
the information by the Commissioners, the Commissioners’ power of disclosure under
subsection (4) above shall, in relation to the information, be exercisable by them subject
to any such restriction.
(6) This section applies to the following bodies and persons—
(a) any government department (including a Northern Ireland department);
(b) any local authority;
(c) any constable; and
(d) any other body or person discharging functions of a public nature (including a
body or person discharging regulatory functions in relation to any description
of activities).
(7) In subsection (6)(d) above the reference to any such body or person as is there mentioned
shall, in relation to a disclosure by the Charity Commissioners under subsection (4)
above, be construed as including a reference to any such body or person in a country
or territory outside the United Kingdom.
(8) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting any power of disclosure
exercisable apart from this section.
(9) In this section “enactment” includes an enactment comprised in subordinate legislation
(within the meaning of the M6Interpretation Act 1978).
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M6 1978 c. 30 .
11 Supply of false or misleading information to Commissioners, etc.
(1) Any person who knowingly or recklessly provides the Commissioners with information
which is false or misleading in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence if the
information—
(a) is provided in purported compliance with a requirement imposed by or under
this Act; or
(b) is provided otherwise than as mentioned in paragraph (a) above but in
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reasonably be expected to know, that it would be used by the Commissioners
for the purpose of discharging their functions under this Act.
(2) Any person who wilfully alters, suppresses, conceals or destroys any document which
he is or is liable to be required, by or under this Act, to produce to the Commissioners
shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;
(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years or to a fine, or both.
(4) In this section references to the Commissioners include references to any person
conducting an inquiry under section 8 above.
F812 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F8 S. 12 repealed (1.3.2000) by 1998 c. 29 , s. 74(2) , Sch. 16 Pt. I ; S.I. 2000/183 , art. 2(1)
PART IV
APPLICATION OF PROPERTY C Y-PRÈS AND A SSISTANCE AND
SUPERVISION OF C HARITIES BY C OURT AND C OMMISSIONERS
Extended powers of court and variation of charters
13 Occasions for applying property cy-près.
(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, the circumstances in which the original purposes of a
charitable gift can be altered to allow the property given or part of it to be applied cy-
près shall be as follows—
(a) where the original purposes, in whole or in part—
(i) have been as far as may be fulfilled; or
(ii) cannot be carried out, or not according to the directions given and to
the spirit of the gift; or
(b) where the original purposes provide a use for part only of the property available
by virtue of the gift; or
(c) where the property available by virtue of the gift and other property applicable
for similar purposes can be more effectively used in conjunction, and to that
end can suitably, regard being had to the spirit of the gift, be made applicable
to common purposes; or
(d) where the original purposes were laid down by reference to an area which then
was but has since ceased to be a unit for some other purpose, or by reference
to a class of persons or to an area which has for any reason since ceased to
be suitable, regard being had to the spirit of the gift, or to be practical in
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(e) where the original purposes, in whole or in part, have, since they were laid
down,—
(i) been adequately provided for by other means; or
(ii) ceased, as being useless or harmful to the community or for other
reasons, to be in law charitable; or
(iii) ceased in any other way to provide a suitable and effective method of
using the property available by virtue of the gift, regard being had to
the spirit of the gift.
(2) Subsection (1) above shall not affect the conditions which must be satisfied in order
that property given for charitable purposes may be applied cy-près except in so far as
those conditions require a failure of the original purposes.
(3) References in the foregoing subsections to the original purposes of a gift shall be
construed, where the application of the property given has been altered or regulated by
a scheme or otherwise, as referring to the purposes for which the property is for the
time being applicable.
(4) Without prejudice to the power to make schemes in circumstances falling within
subsection (1) above, the court may by scheme made under the court’s jurisdiction with
respect to charities, in any case where the purposes for which the property is held are
laid down by reference to any such area as is mentioned in the first column in Schedule 3
to this Act, provide for enlarging the area to any such area as is mentioned in the second
column in the same entry in that Schedule.
(5) It is hereby declared that a trust for charitable purposes places a trustee under a duty,
where the case permits and requires the property or some part of it to be applied cy-
près, to secure its effective use for charity by taking steps to enable it to be so applied.
14 Application cy-près of gifts of donors unknown or disclaiming.
(1) Property given for specific charitable purposes which fail shall be applicable cy-près as
if given for charitable purposes generally, where it belongs—
(a) to a donor who after—
(i) the prescribed advertisements and inquiries have been published and
made, and
(ii) the prescribed period beginning with the publication of those
advertisements has expired,
cannot be identified or cannot be found; or
(b) to a donor who has executed a disclaimer in the prescribed form of his right to
have the property returned.
(2) Where the prescribed advertisements and inquiries have been published and made by or
on behalf of trustees with respect to any such property, the trustees shall not be liable to
any person in respect of the property if no claim by him to be interested in it is received
by them before the expiry of the period mentioned in subsection (1)(a)(ii) above.
(3) For the purposes of this section property shall be conclusively presumed (without any
advertisement or inquiry) to belong to donors who cannot be identified, in so far as it
consists—
(a) of the proceeds of cash collections made by means of collecting boxes or by
other means not adapted for distinguishing one gift from another; or

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(b) of the proceeds of any lottery, competition, entertainment, sale or similar
money-raising activity, after allowing for property given to provide prizes or
articles for sale or otherwise to enable the activity to be undertaken.
(4) The court may by order direct that property not falling within subsection (3) above shall
for the purposes of this section be treated (without any advertisement or inquiry) as
belonging to donors who cannot be identified where it appears to the court either—
(a) that it would be unreasonable, having regard to the amounts likely to be returned
to the donors, to incur expense with a view to returning the property; or
(b) that it would be unreasonable, having regard to the nature, circumstances and
amounts of the gifts, and to the lapse of time since the gifts were made, for the
donors to expect the property to be returned.
(5) Where property is applied cy-près by virtue of this section, the donor shall be deemed to
have parted with all his interest at the time when the gift was made; but where property
is so applied as belonging to donors who cannot be identified or cannot be found, and
is not so applied by virtue of subsection (3) or (4) above—
(a) the scheme shall specify the total amount of that property; and
(b) the donor of any part of that amount shall be entitled, if he makes a claim not
later than six months after the date on which the scheme is made, to recover
from the charity for which the property is applied a sum equal to that part,
less any expenses properly incurred by the charity trustees after that date in
connection with claims relating to his gift; and
(c) the scheme may include directions as to the provision to be made for meeting
any such claim.
(6) Where—
(a) any sum is, in accordance with any such directions, set aside for meeting any
such claims, but
(b) the aggregate amount of any such claims actually made exceeds the relevant
amount,
then, if the Commissioners so direct, each of the donors in question shall be entitled
only to such proportion of the relevant amount as the amount of his claim bears to
the aggregate amount referred to in paragraph (b) above; and for this purpose “the
relevant amount” means the amount of the sum so set aside after deduction of any
expenses properly incurred by the charity trustees in connection with claims relating
to the donors’ gifts.
(7) For the purposes of this section, charitable purposes shall be deemed to “fail” where
any difficulty in applying property to those purposes makes that property or the part not
applicable cy-près available to be returned to the donors.
(8) In this section “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the
Commissioners; and such regulations may, as respects the advertisements which are
to be published for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) above, make provision as to the
form and content of such advertisements as well as the manner in which they are to
be published.
(9) Any regulations made by the Commissioners under this section shall be published by
the Commissioners in such manner as they think fit.
(10) In this section, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, references to a donor
include persons claiming through or under the original donor, and references to property

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given include the property for the time being representing the property originally given
or property derived from it.
(11) This section shall apply to property given for charitable purposes, notwithstanding that
it was so given before the commencement of this Act.
15 Charities governed by charter, or by or under statute.
(1) Where a Royal charter establishing or regulating a body corporate is amendable by the
grant and acceptance of a further charter, a scheme relating to the body corporate or
to the administration of property held by the body (including a scheme for the cy-près
application of any such property) may be made by the court under the court’s jurisdiction
with respect to charities notwithstanding that the scheme cannot take effect without the
alteration of the charter, but shall be so framed that the scheme, or such part of it as
cannot take effect without the alteration of the charter, does not purport to come into
operation unless or until Her Majesty thinks fit to amend the charter in such manner as
will permit the scheme or that part of it to have effect.
(2) Where under the court’s jurisdiction with respect to charities or the corresponding
jurisdiction of a court in Northern Ireland, or under powers conferred by this Act or by
any Northern Ireland legislation relating to charities, a scheme is made with respect to a
body corporate, and it appears to Her Majesty expedient, having regard to the scheme,
to amend any Royal charter relating to that body, Her Majesty may, on the application
of that body, amend the charter accordingly by Order in Council in any way in which
the charter could be amended by the grant and acceptance of a further charter; and any
such Order in Council may be revoked or varied in like manner as the charter it amends.
(3) The jurisdiction of the court with respect to charities shall not be excluded or restricted
in the case of a charity of any description mentioned in Schedule 4 to this Act by
the operation of the enactments or instruments there mentioned in relation to that
description, and a scheme established for any such charity may modify or supersede
in relation to it the provision made by any such enactment or instrument as if made
by a scheme of the court, and may also make any such provision as is authorised by
that Schedule.
Annotations:
Extent Information
E1 S. 15 extends to England and Wales; s. 15(2) extends also to Northern Ireland, see s. 100(4)
Powers of Commissioners to make schemes and act for protection of charities etc.
16 Concurrent jurisdiction with High Court for certain purposes.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Commissioners may by order exercise the same
jurisdiction and powers as are exercisable by the High Court in charity proceedings for
the following purposes—
(a) establishing a scheme for the administration of a charity;
(b) appointing, discharging or removing a charity trustee or trustee for a charity, or
removing an officer or employee;
(c) vesting or transferring property, or requiring or entitling any person to call for
or make any transfer of property or any payment.

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(2) Where the court directs a scheme for the administration of a charity to be established,
the court may by order refer the matter to the Commissioners for them to prepare or
settle a scheme in accordance with such directions (if any) as the court sees fit to give,
and any such order may provide for the scheme to be put into effect by order of the
Commissioners as if prepared under subsection (1) above and without any further order
of the court.
(3) The Commissioners shall not have jurisdiction under this section to try or determine the
title at law or in equity to any property as between a charity or trustee for a charity and
a person holding or claiming the property or an interest in it adversely to the charity, or
to try or determine any question as to the existence or extent of any charge or trust.
(4) Subject to the following subsections, the Commissioners shall not exercise their
jurisdiction under this section as respects any charity, except—
(a) on the application of the charity; or
(b) on an order of the court under subsection (2) above; or
(c) in the case of a charity other than an exempt charity, on the application of the
Attorney General.
(5) In the case of a charity which is not an exempt charity and whose income from all
sources does not in aggregate exceed £500 a year, the Commissioners may exercise
their jurisdiction under this section on the application—
(a) of any one or more of the charity trustees; or
(b) of any person interested in the charity; or
(c) of any two or more inhabitants of the area of the charity if it is a local charity.
(6) Where in the case of a charity, other than an exempt charity, the Commissioners are
satisfied that the charity trustees ought in the interests of the charity to apply for a
scheme, but have unreasonably refused or neglected to do so and the Commissioners
have given the charity trustees an opportunity to make representations to them, the
Commissioners may proceed as if an application for a scheme had been made by the
charity but the Commissioners shall not have power in a case where they act by virtue
of this subsection to alter the purposes of a charity, unless forty years have elapsed from
the date of its foundation.
(7) Where—
(a) a charity cannot apply to the Commissioners for a scheme by reason of any
vacancy among the charity trustees or the absence or incapacity of any of them,
but
(b) such an application is made by such number of the charity trustees as the
Commissioners consider appropriate in the circumstances of the case,
the Commissioners may nevertheless proceed as if the application were an application
made by the charity.
(8) The Commissioners may on the application of any charity trustee or trustee for a charity
exercise their jurisdiction under this section for the purpose of discharging him from
his trusteeship.
(9) Before exercising any jurisdiction under this section otherwise than on an order of the
court, the Commissioners shall give notice of their intention to do so to each of the
charity trustees, except any that cannot be found or has no known address in the United
Kingdom or who is party or privy to an application for the exercise of the jurisdiction;

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and any such notice may be given by post, and, if given by post, may be addressed to
the recipient’s last known address in the United Kingdom.
(10) The Commissioners shall not exercise their jurisdiction under this section in any case
(not referred to them by order of the court) which, by reason of its contentious character,
or of any special question of law or of fact which it may involve, or for other reasons,
the Commissioners may consider more fit to be adjudicated on by the court.
(11) An appeal against any order of the Commissioners under this section may be brought
in the High Court by the Attorney General.
(12) An appeal against any order of the Commissioners under this section may also, at any
time within the three months beginning with the day following that on which the order
is published, be brought in the High Court by the charity or any of the charity trustees,
or by any person removed from any office or employment by the order (unless he is
removed with the concurrence of the charity trustees or with the approval of the special
visitor, if any, of the charity).
(13) No appeal shall be brought under subsection (12) above except with a certificate of the
Commissioners that it is a proper case for an appeal or with the leave of one of the
judges of the High Court attached to the Chancery Division.
(14) Where an order of the Commissioners under this section establishes a scheme for the
administration of a charity, any person interested in the charity shall have the like right
of appeal under subsection (12) above as a charity trustee, and so also, in the case of
a charity which is a local charity in any area, shall any two or more inhabitants of the
area and the council of any parish or (in Wales) any community comprising the area
or any part of it.
(15) If the Secretary of State thinks it expedient to do so—
(a) in consequence of changes in the value of money, or
(b) with a view to increasing the number of charities in respect of which the
Commissioners may exercise their jurisdiction under this section in accordance
with subsection (5) above,
he may by order amend that subsection by substituting a different sum for the sum for
the time being specified there.
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C5 S. 16(3)(9)(11)-(14) applied (1.8.1993) by 1987 c. 3 , s. 5(8) (as substituted (1.8.1993) by ss. 98, 99(1),
Sch. 6 para. 23(1) of this Act)
C6 S. 16(4) excluded (1.4.1997) by 1996 c. 14 , s. 120 , Sch. 5 , Pt. II paras. 6 , 8 (with s. 72(5) ); S.I.
1997/305 , art. 2(1)
17 Further powers to make schemes or alter application of charitable property.
(1) Where it appears to the Commissioners that a scheme should be established for the
administration of a charity, but also that it is necessary or desirable for the scheme
to alter the provision made by an Act of Parliament establishing or regulating the
charity or to make any other provision which goes or might go beyond the powers
exercisable by them apart from this section, or that it is for any reason proper for the
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Commissioners may settle a scheme accordingly with a view to its being given effect
under this section.
(2) A scheme settled by the Commissioners under this section may be given effect by order
of the Secretary of State, and a draft of the order shall be laid before Parliament.
(3) Without prejudice to the operation of section 6 of the M7Statutory Instruments Act 1946
in other cases, in the case of a scheme which goes beyond the powers exercisable apart
from this section in altering a statutory provision contained in or having effect under
any public general Act of Parliament, the order shall not be made unless the draft has
been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
(4) Subject to subsection (5) below, any provision of a scheme brought into effect under this
section may be modified or superseded by the court or the Commissioners as if it were
a scheme brought into effect by order of the Commissioners under section 16 above.
(5) Where subsection (3) above applies to a scheme, the order giving effect to it may direct
that the scheme shall not be modified or superseded by a scheme brought into effect
otherwise than under this section, and may also direct that that subsection shall apply
to any scheme modifying or superseding the scheme to which the order gives effect.
(6) The Commissioners shall not proceed under this section without the like application
and the like notice to the charity trustees, as would be required if they were proceeding
(without an order of the court) under section 16 above; but on any application for a
scheme, or in a case where they act by virtue of subsection (6) or (7) of that section,
the Commissioners may proceed under this section or that section as appears to them
appropriate.
(7) Notwithstanding anything in the trusts of a charity, no expenditure incurred in preparing
or promoting a Bill in Parliament shall without the consent of the court or the
Commissioners be defrayed out of any moneys applicable for the purposes of a charity
but this subsection shall not apply in the case of an exempt charity.
(8) Where the Commissioners are satisfied—
(a) that the whole of the income of a charity cannot in existing circumstances be
effectively applied for the purposes of the charity; and
(b) that, if those circumstances continue, a scheme might be made for applying the
surplus cy-près; and
(c) that it is for any reason not yet desirable to make such a scheme;
then the Commissioners may by order authorise the charity trustees at their discretion
(but subject to any conditions imposed by the order) to apply any accrued or accruing
income for any purposes for which it might be made applicable by such a scheme, and
any application authorised by the order shall be deemed to be within the purposes of
the charity.
(9) An order under subsection (8) above shall not extend to more than £300 out of income
accrued before the date of the order, nor to income accruing more than three years after
that date, nor to more than £100 out of the income accruing in any of those three years.
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C7 S. 17(1)-(5) (7) applied (1.8.1993) by 1987 c. 3 , s. 5(8) (as substituted (1.8.1993) by ss. 98(1), 99(1), Sch.
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Marginal Citations
M7 1946 c. 36 .
18 Power to act for protection of charities.
(1) Where, at any time after they have instituted an inquiry under section 8 above with
respect to any charity, the Commissioners are satisfied—
(a) that there is or has been any misconduct or mismanagement in the
administration of the charity; or
(b) that it is necessary or desirable to act for the purpose of protecting the property
of the charity or securing a proper application for the purposes of the charity of
that property or of property coming to the charity,
the Commissioners may of their own motion do one or more of the following things—
(i) by order suspend any trustee, charity trustee, officer, agent or employee of the
charity from the exercise of his office or employment pending consideration
being given to his removal (whether under this section or otherwise);
(ii) by order appoint such number of additional charity trustees as they
consider necessary for the proper administration of the charity;
(iii) by order vest any property held by or in trust for the charity in the
official custodian, or require the persons in whom any such property is
vested to transfer it to him, or appoint any person to transfer any such
property to him;
(iv) order any person who holds any property on behalf of the charity, or
of any trustee for it, not to part with the property without the approval
of the Commissioners;
(v) order any debtor of the charity not to make any payment in or towards
the discharge of his liability to the charity without the approval of the
Commissioners;
(vi) by order restrict (notwithstanding anything in the trusts of the charity)
the transactions which may be entered into, or the nature or amount of
the payments which may be made, in the administration of the charity
without the approval of the Commissioners;
(vii) by order appoint (in accordance with section 19 below) a receiver and
manager in respect of the property and affairs of the charity.
(2) Where, at any time after they have instituted an inquiry under section 8 above with
respect to any charity, the Commissioners are satisfied—
(a) that there is or has been any misconduct or mismanagement in the
administration of the charity; and
(b) that it is necessary or desirable to act for the purpose of protecting the property
of the charity or securing a proper application for the purposes of the charity of
that property or of property coming to the charity,
the Commissioners may of their own motion do either or both of the following things—
(i) by order remove any trustee, charity trustee, officer, agent or employee of
the charity who has been responsible for or privy to the misconduct or
mismanagement or has by his conduct contributed to it or facilitated it;
(ii) by order establish a scheme for the administration of the charity.
(3) The references in subsection (1) or (2) above to misconduct or mismanagement shall
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the remuneration or reward of persons acting in the affairs of the charity, or for other
administrative purposes, of sums which are excessive in relation to the property which
is or is likely to be applied or applicable for the purposes of the charity.
(4) The Commissioners may also remove a charity trustee by order made of their own
motion—
(a) where, within the last five years, the trustee—
(i) having previously been adjudged bankrupt or had his estate
sequestrated, has been discharged, or
(ii) having previously made a composition or arrangement with, or granted
a trust deed for, his creditors, has been discharged in respect of it;
(b) where the trustee is a corporation in liquidation;
(c) where the trustee is incapable of acting by reason of mental disorder within the
meaning of the M8Mental Health Act 1983;
(d) where the trustee has not acted, and will not declare his willingness or
unwillingness to act;
(e) where the trustee is outside England and Wales or cannot be found or does not
act, and his absence or failure to act impedes the proper administration of the
charity.
(5) The Commissioners may by order made of their own motion appoint a person to be a
charity trustee—
(a) in place of a charity trustee removed by them under this section or otherwise;
(b) where there are no charity trustees, or where by reason of vacancies in their
number or the absence or incapacity of any of their number the charity cannot
apply for the appointment;
(c) where there is a single charity trustee, not being a corporation aggregate, and
the Commissioners are of opinion that it is necessary to increase the number
for the proper administration of the charity;
(d) where the Commissioners are of opinion that it is necessary for the proper
administration of the charity to have an additional charity trustee because one of
the existing charity trustees who ought nevertheless to remain a charity trustee
either cannot be found or does not act or is outside England and Wales.
(6) The powers of the Commissioners under this section to remove or appoint charity
trustees of their own motion shall include power to make any such order with respect
to the vesting in or transfer to the charity trustees of any property as the Commissioners
could make on the removal or appointment of a charity trustee by them under section 16
above.
(7) Any order under this section for the removal or appointment of a charity trustee or
trustee for a charity, or for the vesting or transfer of any property, shall be of the like
effect as an order made under section 16 above.
(8) Subject to subsection (9) below, subsections (11) to (13) of section 16 above shall apply
to orders under this section as they apply to orders under that section.
(9) The requirement to obtain any such certificate or leave as is mentioned in section 16(13)
above shall not apply to—
(a) an appeal by a charity or any of the charity trustees of a charity against an order
under subsection (1)(vii) above appointing a receiver and manager in respect
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(b) an appeal by a person against an order under subsection (2)(i) or (4)(a) above
removing him from his office or employment.
(10) Subsection (14) of section 16 above shall apply to an order under this section which
establishes a scheme for the administration of a charity as it applies to such an order
under that section.
(11) The power of the Commissioners to make an order under subsection (1)(i) above shall
not be exercisable so as to suspend any person from the exercise of his office or
employment for a period of more than twelve months; but (without prejudice to the
generality of section 89(1) below), any such order made in the case of any person
may make provision as respects the period of his suspension for matters arising out
of it, and in particular for enabling any person to execute any instrument in his name
or otherwise act for him and, in the case of a charity trustee, for adjusting any rules
governing the proceedings of the charity trustees to take account of the reduction in the
number capable of acting.
(12) Before exercising any jurisdiction under this section otherwise than by virtue of
subsection (1) above, the Commissioners shall give notice of their intention to do so to
each of the charity trustees, except any that cannot be found or has no known address in
the United Kingdom; and any such notice may be given by post and, if given by post,
may be addressed to the recipient’s last known address in the United Kingdom.
(13) The Commissioners shall, at such intervals as they think fit, review any order made by
them under paragraph (i), or any of paragraphs (iii) to (vii), of subsection (1) above;
and, if on any such review it appears to them that it would be appropriate to discharge
the order in whole or in part, they shall so discharge it (whether subject to any savings
or other transitional provisions or not).
(14) If any person contravenes an order under subsection (1)(iv), (v) or (vi) above, he shall
be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level
5 on the standard scale.
(15) Subsection (14) above shall not be taken to preclude the bringing of proceedings
for breach of trust against any charity trustee or trustee for a charity in respect of a
contravention of an order under subsection (1)(iv) or (vi) above (whether proceedings
in respect of the contravention are brought against him under subsection (14) above
or not).
(16) This section shall not apply to an exempt charity.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M8 1983 c. 20 .
19 Supplementary provisions relating to receiver and manager appointed for a
charity.
(1) The Commissioners may under section 18(1)(vii) above appoint to be receiver and
manager in respect of the property and affairs of a charity such person (other than an
officer or employee of theirs) as they think fit.

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(2) Without prejudice to the generality of section 89(1) below, any order made by the
Commissioners under section 18(1)(vii) above may make provision with respect to the
functions to be discharged by the receiver and manager appointed by the order; and
those functions shall be discharged by him under the supervision of the Commissioners.
(3) In connection with the discharge of those functions any such order may provide—
(a) for the receiver and manager appointed by the order to have such powers and
duties of the charity trustees of the charity concerned (whether arising under
this Act or otherwise) as are specified in the order;
(b) for any powers or duties exercisable or falling to be performed by the receiver
and manager by virtue of paragraph (a) above to be exercisable or performed
by him to the exclusion of those trustees.
(4) Where a person has been appointed receiver and manager by any such order—
(a) section 29 below shall apply to him and to his functions as a person so appointed
as it applies to a charity trustee of the charity concerned and to his duties as
such; and
(b) the Commissioners may apply to the High Court for directions in relation to any
particular matter arising in connection with the discharge of those functions.
(5) The High Court may on an application under subsection (4)(b) above—
(a) give such directions, or
(b) make such orders declaring the rights of any persons (whether before the court
or not),
as it thinks just; and the costs of any such application shall be paid by the charity
concerned.
(6) Regulations made by the Secretary of State may make provision with respect to—
(a) the appointment and removal of persons appointed in accordance with this
section;
(b) the remuneration of such persons out of the income of the charities concerned;
(c) the making of reports to the Commissioners by such persons.
(7) Regulations under subsection (6) above may, in particular, authorise the Commissioners
—
(a) to require security for the due discharge of his functions to be given by a person
so appointed;
(b) to determine the amount of such a person’s remuneration;
(c) to disallow any amount of remuneration in such circumstances as are prescribed
by the regulations.
20 Publicity for proceedings under ss. 16 to 18.
(1) The Commissioners shall not make any order under this Act to establish a scheme for
the administration of a charity, or submit such a scheme to the court or the Secretary
of State for an order giving it effect, unless not less than one month previously there
has been given public notice of their proposals, inviting representations to be made to
them within a time specified in the notice, being not less than one month from the date
of such notice, and, in the case of a scheme relating to a local charity, other than on
ecclesiastical charity, in a parish or (in Wales) a community, a draft of the scheme has

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been communicated to the parish or community council or, in the case of a parish not
having a council, to the chairman of the parish meeting.
(2) The Commissioners shall not make any order under this Act to appoint, discharge or
remove a charity trustee or trustee for a charity (other than the official custodian), unless
not less than one month previously there has been given the like public notice as is
required by subsection (1) above for an order establishing a scheme but this subsection
shall not apply in the case of—
(a) an order under section 18(1)(ii) above; or
(b) an order discharging or removing a trustee if the Commissioners are of opinion
that it is unnecessary and not in his interest to give publicity to the proposal to
discharge or remove him.
(3) Before the Commissioners make an order under this Act to remove without his consent
a charity trustee or trustee for a charity, or an officer, agent or employee of a charity,
the Commissioners shall, unless he cannot be found or has no known address in the
United Kingdom, give him not less than one month’s notice of their proposal, inviting
representations to be made to them within a time specified in the notice.
(4) Where notice is given of any proposals as required by subsections (1) to (3) above, the
Commissioners shall take into consideration any representations made to them about
the proposals within the time specified in the notice, and may (without further notice)
proceed with the proposals either without modification or with such modifications as
appear to them to be desirable.
(5) Where the Commissioners make an order which is subject to appeal under
subsection (12) of section 16 above the order shall be published either by giving public
notice of it or by giving notice of it to all persons entitled to appeal against it under that
subsection, as the Commissioners think fit.
(6) Where the Commissioners make an order under this Act to establish a scheme for the
administration of a charity, a copy of the order shall, for not less than one month after
the order is published, be available for public inspection at all reasonable times at the
Commissioners’ office and also at some convenient place in the area of the charity, if
it is a local charity.
(7) Any notice to be given under this section of any proposals or order shall give such
particulars of the proposals or order, or such directions for obtaining information about
them, as the Commissioners think sufficient and appropriate, and any public notice shall
be given in such manner as they think sufficient and appropriate.
(8) Any notice to be given under this section, other than a public notice, may be given by
post and, if given by post, may be addressed to the recipient’s last known address in
the United Kingdom.
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C8 S. 20 applied (1.8.1993) by 1987 c. 3 , s. 5(8) (as substituted (1.8.1993) by ss. 98(1), 99(1), Sch. 6 para.
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Property vested in official custodian
21 Entrusting charity property to official custodian, and termination of trust.
(1) The court may by order—
(a) vest in the official custodian any land held by or in trust for a charity;
(b) authorise or require the persons in whom any such land is vested to transfer
it to him; or
(c) appoint any person to transfer any such land to him;
but this subsection does not apply to any interest in land by way of mortgage or other
security.
(2) Where property is vested in the official custodian in trust for a charity, the court may
make an order discharging him from the trusteeship as respects all or any of that
property.
(3) Where the official custodian is discharged from his trusteeship of any property, or the
trusts on which he holds any property come to an end, the court may make such vesting
orders and give such directions as may seem to the court to be necessary or expedient
in consequence.
(4) No person shall be liable for any loss occasioned by his acting in conformity with an
order under this section or by his giving effect to anything done in pursuance of such
an order, or be excused from so doing by reason of the order having been in any respect
improperly obtained.
22 Supplementary provisions as to property vested in official custodian.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, where property is vested in the official custodian
in trust for a charity, he shall not exercise any powers of management, but he shall as
trustee of any property have all the same powers, duties and liabilities, and be entitled
to the same rights and immunities, and be subject to the control and orders of the court,
as a corporation appointed custodian trustee under section 4 of the M9Public Trustee Act
1906 except that he shall have no power to charge fees.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) below, where any land is vested in the official custodian in
trust for a charity, the charity trustees shall have power in his name and on his behalf
to execute and do all assurances and things which they could properly execute or do in
their own name and on their own behalf if the land were vested in them.
(3) If any land is so vested in the official custodian by virtue of an order under section 18
above, the power conferred on the charity trustees by subsection (2) above shall not
be exercisable by them in relation to any transaction affecting the land, unless the
transaction is authorised by order of the court or of the Commissioners.
(4) Where any land is vested in the official custodian in trust for a charity, the charity
trustees shall have the like power to make obligations entered into by them binding on
the land as if it were vested in them; and any covenant, agreement or condition which is
enforceable by or against the custodian by reason of the land being vested in him shall
be enforceable by or against the charity trustees as if the land were vested in them.
(5) In relation to a corporate charity, subsections (2), (3) and (4) above shall apply with the
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(6) Subsections (2), (3) and (4) above shall not authorise any charity trustees or charity to
impose any personal liability on the official custodian.
(7) Where the official custodian is entitled as trustee for a charity to the custody of securities
or documents of title relating to the trust property, he may permit them to be in the
possession or under the control of the charity trustees without thereby incurring any
liability.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M9 1906 c. 55 .
23 Divestment in the case of land subject to Reverter of Sites Act 1987.
(1) Where—
(a) any land is vested in the official custodian in trust for a charity, and
(b) it appears to the Commissioners that section 1 of the M10 Reverter of Sites Act
1987 (right of reverter replaced by [F9trust ]) will, or is likely to, operate in
relation to the land at a particular time or in particular circumstances,
the jurisdiction which, under section 16 above, is exercisable by the Commissioners for
the purpose of discharging a trustee for a charity may, at any time before section 1 of
that Act (“the 1987 Act”) operates in relation to the land, be exercised by them of their
own motion for the purpose of—
(i) making an order discharging the official custodian from his trusteeship of the
land, and
(ii) making such vesting orders and giving such directions as appear to
them to be necessary or expedient in consequence.
(2) Where—
(a) section 1 of the 1987 Act has operated in relation to any land which,
immediately before the time when that section so operated, was vested in the
official custodian in trust for a charity, and
(b) the land remains vested in him but on the trust arising under that section,
the court or the Commissioners (of their own motion) may—
(i) make an order discharging the official custodian from his trusteeship of the
land, and
(ii) (subject to the following provisions of this section) make such vesting
orders and give such directions as appear to it or them to be necessary
or expedient in consequence.
(3) Where any order discharging the official custodian from his trusteeship of any land—
(a) is made by the court under section 21(2) above, or by the Commissioners under
section 16 above, on the grounds that section 1 of the 1987 Act will, or is likely
to, operate in relation to the land, or
(b) is made by the court or the Commissioners under subsection (2) above,
the persons in whom the land is to be vested on the discharge of the official custodian
shall be the relevant charity trustees (as defined in subsection (4) below), unless the
court or (as the case may be) the Commissioners is or are satisfied that it would be
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(4) In subsection (3) above “the relevant charity trustees” means—
(a) in relation to an order made as mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection,
the charity trustees of the charity in trust for which the land is vested in the
official custodian immediately before the time when the order takes effect, or
(b) in relation to an order made under subsection (2) above, the charity trustees
of the charity in trust for which the land was vested in the official custodian
immediately before the time when section 1 of the 1987 Act operated in relation
to the land.
(5) Where—
(a) section 1 of the 1987 Act has operated in relation to any such land as is
mentioned in subsection (2)(a) above, and
(b) the land remains vested in the official custodian as mentioned in subsection (2)
(b) above,
then (subject to subsection (6) below), all the powers, duties and liabilities that would,
apart from this section, be those of the official custodian as [F9trustee ] of the land shall
instead be those of the charity trustees of the charity concerned; and those trustees shall
have power in his name and on his behalf to execute and do all assurances and things
which they could properly execute or do in their own name and on their own behalf if
the land were vested in them.
(6) Subsection (5) above shall not be taken to require or authorise those trustees to sell the
land at a time when it remains vested in the official custodian.
(7) Where—
(a) the official custodian has been discharged from his trusteeship of any land by
an order under subsection (2) above, and
(b) the land has, in accordance with subsection (3) above, been vested in the charity
trustees concerned or (as the case may be) in any persons other than those
trustees,
the land shall be held by those trustees, or (as the case may be) by those persons, as
[F9trustees ]on the terms of the trust arising under section 1 of the 1987 Act.
(8) The official custodian shall not be liable to any person in respect of any loss or
misapplication of any land vested in him in accordance with that section unless it is
occasioned by or through any wilful neglect or default of his or of any person acting for
him; but the Consolidated Fund shall be liable to make good to any person any sums
for which the official custodian may be liable by reason of any such neglect or default.
(9) In this section any reference to section 1 of the 1987 Act operating in relation to any
land is a reference to a [F9trust ] arising in relation to the land under that section.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F9 Words in s. 23(1)(b)(5)(7)(9) substituted (1.1.1997) by 1996 c. 47 , s. 25(1) , Sch. 3 para. 26(a)-(d) (with
s. 24(2) , 25(4)(5) ); S.I. 1996/2974 , art. 2
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Establishment of common investment or deposit funds
24 Schemes to establish common investment funds.
(1) The court or the Commissioners may by order make and bring into effect schemes
(in this section referred to as “common investment schemes”) for the establishment of
common investment funds under trusts which provide—
(a) for property transferred to the fund by or on behalf of a charity participating
in the scheme to be invested under the control of trustees appointed to manage
the fund; and
(b) for the participating charities to be entitled (subject to the provisions of the
scheme) to the capital and income of the fund in shares determined by reference
to the amount or value of the property transferred to it by or on behalf of each
of them and to the value of the fund at the time of the transfers.
(2) The court or the Commissioners may make a common investment scheme on the
application of any two or more charities.
(3) A common investment scheme may be made in terms admitting any charity to
participate, or the scheme may restrict the right to participate in any manner.
(4) A common investment scheme may make provision for, and for all matters connected
with, the establishment, investment, management and winding up of the common
investment fund, and may in particular include provision—
(a) for remunerating persons appointed trustees to hold or manage the fund or
any part of it, with or without provision authorising a person to receive the
remuneration notwithstanding that he is also a charity trustee of or trustee for
a participating charity;
(b) for restricting the size of the fund, and for regulating as to time, amount or
otherwise the right to transfer property to or withdraw it from the fund, and for
enabling sums to be advanced out of the fund by way of loan to a participating
charity pending the withdrawal of property from the fund by the charity;
(c) for enabling income to be withheld from distribution with a view to
avoiding fluctuations in the amounts distributed, and generally for regulating
distributions of income;
(d) for enabling money to be borrowed temporarily for the purpose of meeting
payments to be made out of the funds;
(e) for enabling questions arising under the scheme as to the right of a charity to
participate, or as to the rights of participating charities, or as to any other matter,
to be conclusively determined by the decision of the trustees managing the fund
or in any other manner;
(f) for regulating the accounts and information to be supplied to participating
charities.
(5) A common investment scheme, in addition to the provision for property to be transferred
to the fund on the basis that the charity shall be entitled to a share in the capital and
income of the fund, may include provision for enabling sums to be deposited by or on
behalf of a charity on the basis that (subject to the provisions of the scheme) the charity
shall be entitled to repayment of the sums deposited and to interest thereon at a rate
determined by or under the scheme; and where a scheme makes any such provision it
shall also provide for excluding from the amount of capital and income to be shared
between charities participating otherwise than by way of deposit such amounts (not
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to time reasonably required in respect of the liabilities of the fund for the repayment of
deposits and for the interest on deposits, including amounts required by way of reserve.
(6) Except in so far as a common investment scheme provides to the contrary, the rights
under it of a participating charity shall not be capable of being assigned or charged,
nor shall any trustee or other person concerned in the management of the common
investment fund be required or entitled to take account of any trust or other equity
affecting a participating charity or its property or rights.
(7) The powers of investment of every charity shall include power to participate in common
investment schemes unless the power is excluded by a provision specifically referring
to common investment schemes in the trusts of the charity.
(8) A common investment fund shall be deemed for all purposes to be a charity; and if
the scheme admits only exempt charities, the fund shall be an exempt charity for the
purposes of this Act.
(9) Subsection (8) above shall apply not only to common investment funds established
under the powers of this section, but also to any similar fund established for the
exclusive benefit of charities by or under any enactment relating to any particular
charities or class of charity.
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C9 S. 24 excluded (6.2.2000) by 1999 c. 16 , s. 122(4) , Sch. 19 Pt. IV para. 15(a)
25 Schemes to establish common deposit funds.
(1) The court or the Commissioners may by order make and bring into effect schemes (in
this section referred to as “common deposit schemes”) for the establishment of common
deposit funds under trusts which provide—
(a) for sums to be deposited by or on behalf of a charity participating in the scheme
and invested under the control of trustees appointed to manage the fund; and
(b) for any such charity to be entitled (subject to the provisions of the scheme) to
repayment of any sums so deposited and to interest thereon at a rate determined
under the scheme.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) below, the following provisions of section 24 above, namely—
(a) subsections (2) to (4), and
(b) subsections (6) to (9),
shall have effect in relation to common deposit schemes and common deposit funds as
they have effect in relation to common investment schemes and common investment
funds.
(3) In its application in accordance with subsection (2) above, subsection (4) of that section
shall have effect with the substitution for paragraphs (b) and (c) of the following
paragraphs—
“(b) for regulating as to time, amount or otherwise the right to repayment
of sums deposited in the fund;
(c) for authorising a part of the income for any year to be credited to a
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accruing to the fund, and generally for regulating the manner in which
the rate of interest on deposits is to be determined from time to time;”.
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C10 S. 25 excluded (6.2.2000) by 1993 c. 10 , s. 122(4) , Sch. 19 Pt. IV para. 15(b)
Additional powers of Commissioners
26 Power to authorise dealings with charity property etc.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, where it appears to the Commissioners that any
action proposed or contemplated in the administration of a charity is expedient in the
interests of the charity, they may by order sanction that action, whether or not it would
otherwise be within the powers exercisable by the charity trustees in the administration
of the charity; and anything done under the authority of such an order shall be deemed
to be properly done in the exercise of those powers.
(2) An order under this section may be made so as to authorise a particular transaction,
compromise or the like, or a particular application of property, or so as to give a more
general authority, and (without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above) may
authorise a charity to use common premises, or employ a common staff, or otherwise
combine for any purpose of administration, with any other charity.
(3) An order under this section may give directions as to the manner in which any
expenditure is to be borne and as to other matters connected with or arising out of the
action thereby authorised; and where anything is done in pursuance of an authority
given by any such order, any directions given in connection therewith shall be binding
on the charity trustees for the time being as if contained in the trusts of the charity; but
any such directions may on the application of the charity be modified or superseded
by a further order.
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (3) above, the directions which may
be given by an order under this section shall in particular include directions for meeting
any expenditure out of a specified fund, for charging any expenditure to capital or to
income, for requiring expenditure charged to capital to be recouped out of income within
a specified period, for restricting the costs to be incurred at the expense of the charity,
or for the investment of moneys arising from any transaction.
(5) An order under this section may authorise any act notwithstanding that it is prohibited
by any of the disabling Acts mentioned in subsection (6) below or that the trusts of the
charity provide for the act to be done by or under the authority of the court; but no such
order shall authorise the doing of any act expressly prohibited by Act of Parliament
other than the disabling Acts or by the trusts of the charity or shall extend or alter the
purposes of the charity.
(6) The Acts referred to in subsection (5) above as the disabling Acts are theM11 Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1571, the M12 Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1572, the M13 Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1575 and the M14 Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1836.
(7) An order under this section shall not confer any authority in relation to a building which
has been consecrated and of which the use or disposal is regulated, and can be further

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regulated, by a scheme having effect under the Union of Benefices Measures 1923 to
1952, the Reorganisation Areas Measures 1944 and 1954, the M15 Pastoral Measure 1968
or the M16 Pastoral Measure 1983, the reference to a building being taken to include part
of a building and any land which under such a scheme is to be used or disposed of with
a building to which the scheme applies.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M11 1571 c. 10 .
M12 1572 c. 11 .
M13 1575 c. 11 .
M14 1836 c. 20 .
M15 1968 No.1 .
M16 1983 No.1 .
27 Power to authorise ex gratia payments etc.
(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, the Commissioners may by order exercise the same
power as is exercisable by the Attorney General to authorise the charity trustees of a
charity—
(a) to make any application of property of the charity, or
(b) to waive to any extent, on behalf of the charity, its entitlement to receive any
property,
in a case where the charity trustees—
(i) (apart from this section) have no power to do so, but
(ii) in all the circumstances regard themselves as being under a moral
obligation to do so.
(2) The power conferred on the Commissioners by subsection (1) above shall be exercisable
by them under the supervision of, and in accordance with such directions as may be
given by, the Attorney General; and any such directions may in particular require the
Commissioners, in such circumstances as are specified in the directions—
(a) to refrain from exercising that power; or
(b) to consult the Attorney General before exercising it.
(3) Where—
(a) an application is made to the Commissioners for them to exercise that power in
a case where they are not precluded from doing so by any such directions, but
(b) they consider that it would nevertheless be desirable for the application to be
entertained by the Attorney General rather than by them,
they shall refer the application to the Attorney General.
(4) It is hereby declared that where, in the case of any application made to them as
mentioned in subsection (3)(a) above, the Commissioners determine the application by
refusing to authorise charity trustees to take any action falling within subsection (1)
(a) or (b) above, that refusal shall not preclude the Attorney General, on an application
subsequently made to him by the trustees, from authorising the trustees to take that
action.

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28 Power to give directions about dormant bank accounts of charities.
(1) Where the Commissioners—
(a) are informed by a relevant institution—
(i) that it holds one or more accounts in the name of or on behalf of a
particular charity (“the relevant charity”), and
(ii) that the account, or (if it so holds two or more accounts) each of the
accounts, is dormant, and
(b) are unable, after making reasonable inquiries, to locate that charity or any of
its trustees,
they may give a direction under subsection (2) below.
(2) A direction under this subsection is a direction which—
(a) requires the institution concerned to transfer the amount, or (as the case may
be) the aggregate amount, standing to the credit of the relevant charity in the
account or accounts in question to such other charity as is specified in the
direction in accordance with subsection (3) below; or
(b) requires the institution concerned to transfer to each of two or more other
charities so specified in the direction such part of that amount or aggregate
amount as is there specified in relation to that charity.
(3) The Commissioners may specify in a direction under subsection (2) above such other
charity or charities as they consider appropriate, having regard, in a case where the
purposes of the relevant charity are known to them, to those purposes and to the
purposes of the other charity or charities; but the Commissioners shall not so specify
any charity unless they have received from the charity trustees written confirmation that
those trustees are willing to accept the amount proposed to be transferred to the charity.
(4) Any amount received by a charity by virtue of this section shall be received by the
charity on terms that—
(a) it shall be held and applied by the charity for the purposes of the charity, but
(b) it shall, as property of the charity, nevertheless be subject to any restrictions on
expenditure to which it was subject as property of the relevant charity.
(5) Where—
(a) the Commissioners have been informed as mentioned in subsection (1)(a)
above by any relevant institution, and
(b) before any transfer is made by the institution in pursuance of a direction under
subsection (2) above, the institution has, by reason of any circumstances, cause
to believe that the account, or (as the case may be) any of the accounts, held by
it in the name of or on behalf of the relevant charity is no longer dormant,
the institution shall forthwith notify those circumstances in writing to the
Commissioners; and, if it appears to the Commissioners that the account or accounts
in question is or are no longer dormant, they shall revoke any direction under
subsection (2) above which has previously been given by them to the institution with
respect to the relevant charity.
(6) The receipt of any charity trustees or trustee for a charity in respect of any amount
received from a relevant institution by virtue of this section shall be a complete
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(7) No obligation as to secrecy or other restriction on disclosure (however imposed) shall
preclude a relevant institution from disclosing any information to the Commissioners
for the purpose of enabling them to discharge their functions under this section.
(8) For the purposes of this section—
(a) an account is dormant if no transaction, other than—
(i) a transaction consisting in a payment into the account, or
(ii) a transaction which the institution holding the account has itself caused
to be effected,
has been effected in relation to the account within the period of five years
immediately preceding the date when the Commissioners are informed as
mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) above;
(b) a “relevant institution” means—
(i) the Bank of England;
[F10 (ii) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and
Markets Act 2000 to accept deposits;
(iii) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 3 to
that Act which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as
a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12(1) of that
Schedule) to accept deposits; or
(iv) such other person who may lawfully accept deposits in the United
Kingdom as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State. ] (c) references to the transfer of any amount to a charity are references to its transfer
—
(i) to the charity trustees, or
(ii) to any trustee for the charity,
as the charity trustees may determine (and any reference to any amount received
by a charity shall be construed accordingly).
[F11 (8A) Sub-paragraphs (ii) to (iv) of the definition of “relevant institution” in subsection (8)
(b) must be read with—
(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
(b) any relevant order under that section; and
(c) Schedule 2 to that Act. ] (9) For the purpose of determining the matters in respect of which any of the powers
conferred by section 8 or 9 above may be exercised it shall be assumed that the
Commissioners have no functions under this section in relation to accounts to which
this subsection applies (with the result that, for example, a relevant institution shall not,
in connection with the functions of the Commissioners under this section, be required
under section 8(3)(a) above to furnish any statements, or answer any questions or
inquiries, with respect to any such accounts held by the institution).
This subsection applies to accounts which are dormant accounts by virtue of
subsection (8)(a) above but would not be such accounts if sub-paragraph (i) of that
provision were omitted.
(10) Subsection (1) above shall not apply to any account held in the name of or on behalf
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Amendments (Textual)
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F11 S. 28(8A) inserted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649 , arts. 1 , 339(3)
29 Power to advise charity trustees.
(1) The Commissioners may on the written application of any charity trustee give him their
opinion or advice on any matter affecting the performance of his duties as such.
(2) A charity trustee or trustee for a charity acting in accordance with the opinion or advice
of the Commissioners given under this section with respect to the charity shall be
deemed, as regards his responsibility for so acting, to have acted in accordance with his
trust, unless, when he does so, either—
(a) he knows or has reasonable cause to suspect that the opinion or advice was
given in ignorance of material facts; or
(b) the decision of the court has been obtained on the matter or proceedings are
pending to obtain one.
30 Powers for preservation of charity documents.
(1) The Commissioners may provide books in which any deed, will or other document
relating to a charity may be enrolled.
(2) The Commissioners may accept for safe keeping any document of or relating to a
charity, and the charity trustees or other persons having the custody of documents of or
relating to a charity (including a charity which has ceased to exist) may with the consent
of the Commissioners deposit them with the Commissioners for safe keeping, except
in the case of documents required by some other enactment to be kept elsewhere.
(3) Where a document is enrolled by the Commissioners or is for the time being deposited
with them under this section, evidence of its contents may be given by means of a copy
certified by any officer of the Commissioners generally or specially authorised by them
to act for this purpose; and a document purporting to be such a copy shall be received in
evidence without proof of the official position, authority or handwriting of the person
certifying it or of the original document being enrolled or deposited as aforesaid.
(4) Regulations made by the Secretary of State may make provision for such documents
deposited with the Commissioners under this section as may be prescribed by the
regulations to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of after such period or in such
circumstances as may be so prescribed.
(5) Subsections (3) and (4) above shall apply to any document transmitted to the
Commissioners under section 9 above and kept by them under subsection (3) of that
section, as if the document had been deposited with them for safe keeping under this
section.
31 Power to order taxation of solicitor’s bill.
(1) The Commissioners may order that a solicitor’s bill of costs for business done for a
charity, or for charity trustees or trustees for a charity, shall be taxed, together with the

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costs of the taxation, by a taxing officer in such division of the High Court as may be
specified in the order, or by the taxing officer of any other court having jurisdiction to
order the taxation of the bill.
(2) On any order under this section for the taxation of a solicitor’s bill the taxation shall
proceed, and the taxing officer shall have the same powers and duties, and the costs
of the taxation shall be borne, as if the order had been made, on the application of the
person chargeable with the bill, by the court in which the costs are taxed.
(3) No order under this section for the taxation of a solicitor’s bill shall be made after
payment of the bill unless the Commissioners are of opinion that it contains exorbitant
charges; and no such order shall in any case be made where the solicitor’s costs are not
subject to taxation on an order of the High Court by reason either of an agreement as to
his remuneration or the lapse of time since payment of the bill.
Legal proceedings relating to charities
32 Proceedings by Commissioners.
(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, the Commissioners may exercise the same powers with
respect to—
(a) the taking of legal proceedings with reference to charities or the property or
affairs of charities, or
(b) the compromise of claims with a view to avoiding or ending such proceedings,
as are exercisable by the Attorney General acting ex officio.
(2) Subsection (1) above does not apply to the power of the Attorney General under
section 63(1) below to present a petition for the winding up of a charity.
(3) The practice and procedure to be followed in relation to any proceedings taken by the
Commissioners under subsection (1) above shall be the same in all respects (and in
particular as regards costs) as if they were proceedings taken by the Attorney General
acting ex officio.
(4) No rule of law or practice shall be taken to require the Attorney General to be a party
to any such proceedings.
(5) The powers exercisable by the Commissioners by virtue of this section shall be
exercisable by them of their own motion, but shall be exercisable only with the
agreement of the Attorney General on each occasion.
33 Proceedings by other persons.
(1) Charity proceedings may be taken with reference to a charity either by the charity, or
by any of the charity trustees, or by any person interested in the charity, or by any two
or more inhabitants of the area of the charity if it is a local charity, but not by any other
person.
(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section, no charity proceedings relating to
a charity (other than an exempt charity) shall be entertained or proceeded with in any
court unless the taking of the proceedings is authorised by order of the Commissioners.

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(3) The Commissioners shall not, without special reasons, authorise the taking of charity
proceedings where in their opinion the case can be dealt with by them under the powers
of this Act other than those conferred by section 32 above.
(4) This section shall not require any order for the taking of proceedings in a pending cause
or matter or for the bringing of any appeal.
(5) Where the foregoing provisions of this section require the taking of charity proceedings
to be authorised by an order of the Commissioners, the proceedings may nevertheless
be entertained or proceeded with if, after the order had been applied for and refused,
leave to take the proceedings was obtained from one of the judges of the High Court
attached to the Chancery Division.
(6) Nothing in the foregoing subsections shall apply to the taking of proceedings by the
Attorney General, with or without a relator, or to the taking of proceedings by the
Commissioners in accordance with section 32 above.
(7) Where it appears to the Commissioners, on an application for an order under this section
or otherwise, that it is desirable for legal proceedings to be taken with reference to any
charity (other than an exempt charity) or its property or affairs, and for the proceedings
to be taken by the Attorney General, the Commissioners shall so inform the Attorney
General, and send him such statements and particulars as they think necessary to explain
the matter.
(8) In this section “charity proceedings” means proceedings in any court in England or
Wales brought under the court’s jurisdiction with respect to charities, or brought under
the court’s jurisdiction with respect to trusts in relation to the administration of a trust
for charitable purposes.
34 Report of s. 8 inquiry to be evidence in certain proceedings.
(1) A copy of the report of the person conducting an inquiry under section 8 above shall,
if certified by the Commissioners to be a true copy, be admissible in any proceedings
to which this section applies—
(a) as evidence of any fact stated in the report; and
(b) as evidence of the opinion of that person as to any matter referred to in it.
(2) This section applies to—
(a) any legal proceedings instituted by the Commissioners under this Part of this
Act; and
(b) any legal proceedings instituted by the Attorney General in respect of a charity.
(3) A document purporting to be a certificate issued for the purposes of subsection (1)
above shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be such a certificate, unless the
contrary is proved.
Meaning of “trust corporation”
35 Application of provisions to trust corporations appointed under s. 16 or 18.
(1) In the definition of “trust corporation” contained in the following provisions—
(a) section 117(xxx) of the M17 Settled Land Act 1925,
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(c) section 205(xxviii) of the M19 Law of Property Act 1925,
(d) section 55(xxvi) of the M20 Administration of Estates Act 1925, and
(e) section 128 of the M21 Supreme Court Act 1981,
the reference to a corporation appointed by the court in any particular case to be a trustee
includes a reference to a corporation appointed by the Commissioners under this Act
to be a trustee.
(2) This section shall be deemed always to have had effect; but the reference to section 128
of the Supreme Court Act 1981 shall, in relation to any time before 1st January 1982,
be construed as a reference to section 175(1) of the M22 Supreme Court of Judicature
(Consolidation) Act 1925.
Annotations:
Commencement Information
I1 As from Royal Assent, this section shall be deemed to always have had effect.
Marginal Citations
M17 1925 c. 18 .
M18 1925 c. 19 .
M19 1925 c. 20 .
M20 1925 c. 23 .
M21 1981 c. 54 .
M22 1925 c. 49 .
PART V
CHARITY LAND
36 Restrictions on dispositions.
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section and section 40 below, no land held by
or in trust for a charity shall be sold, leased or otherwise disposed of without an order
of the court or of the Commissioners.
(2) Subsection (1) above shall not apply to a disposition of such land if—
(a) the disposition is made to a person who is not—
(i) a connected person (as defined in Schedule 5 to this Act), or
(ii) a trustee for, or nominee of, a connected person; and
(b) the requirements of subsection (3) or (5) below have been complied with in
relation to it.
(3) Except where the proposed disposition is the granting of such a lease as is mentioned
in subsection (5) below, the charity trustees must, before entering into an agreement for
the sale, or (as the case may be) for a lease or other disposition, of the land—
(a) obtain and consider a written report on the proposed disposition from a qualified
surveyor instructed by the trustees and acting exclusively for the charity;
(b) advertise the proposed disposition for such period and in such manner as the
surveyor has advised in his report (unless he has there advised that it would not
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(c) decide that they are satisfied, having considered the surveyor’s report, that the
terms on which the disposition is proposed to be made are the best that can
reasonably be obtained for the charity.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) above a person is a qualified surveyor if—
(a) he is a fellow or professional associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors or of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers or satisfies
such other requirement or requirements as may be prescribed by regulations
made by the Secretary of State; and
(b) he is reasonably believed by the charity trustees to have ability in, and
experience of, the valuation of land of the particular kind, and in the particular
area, in question;
and any report prepared for the purposes of that subsection shall contain such
information, and deal with such matters, as may be prescribed by regulations so made.
(5) Where the proposed disposition is the granting of a lease for a term ending not more than
seven years after it is granted (other than one granted wholly or partly in consideration
of a fine), the charity trustees must, before entering into an agreement for the lease—
(a) obtain and consider the advice on the proposed disposition of a person who is
reasonably believed by the trustees to have the requisite ability and practical
experience to provide them with competent advice on the proposed disposition;
and
(b) decide that they are satisfied, having considered that person’s advice, that the
terms on which the disposition is proposed to be made are the best that can
reasonably be obtained for the charity.
(6) Where—
(a) any land is held by or in trust for a charity, and
(b) the trusts on which it is so held stipulate that it is to be used for the purposes,
or any particular purposes, of the charity,
then (subject to subsections (7) and (8) below and without prejudice to the operation of
the preceding provisions of this section) the land shall not be sold, leased or otherwise
disposed of unless the charity trustees have previously—
(i) given public notice of the proposed disposition, inviting representations to be
made to them within a time specified in the notice, being not less than one
month from the date of the notice; and
(ii) taken into consideration any representations made to them within that
time about the proposed disposition.
(7) Subsection (6) above shall not apply to any such disposition of land as is there
mentioned if—
(a) the disposition is to be effected with a view to acquiring by way of replacement
other property which is to be held on the trusts referred to in paragraph (b) of
that subsection; or
(b) the disposition is the granting of a lease for a term ending not more than two
years after it is granted (other than one granted wholly or partly in consideration
of a fine).
(8) The Commissioners may direct—
(a) that subsection (6) above shall not apply to dispositions of land held by or in
trust for a charity or class of charities (whether generally or only in the case

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of a specified class of dispositions or land, or otherwise as may be provided
in the direction), or
(b) that that subsection shall not apply to a particular disposition of land held by
or in trust for a charity,
if, on an application made to them in writing by or on behalf of the charity or charities in
question, the Commissioners are satisfied that it would be in the interests of the charity
or charities for them to give the direction.
(9) The restrictions on disposition imposed by this section apply notwithstanding anything
in the trusts of a charity; but nothing in this section applies—
(a) to any disposition for which general or special authority is expressly given
(without the authority being made subject to the sanction of an order of the
court) by any statutory provision contained in or having effect under an Act of
Parliament or by any scheme legally established; or
(b) to any disposition of land held by or in trust for a charity which—
(i) is made to another charity otherwise than for the best price that can
reasonably be obtained, and
(ii) is authorised to be so made by the trusts of the first-mentioned charity;
or
(c) to the granting, by or on behalf of a charity and in accordance with its trusts, of
a lease to any beneficiary under those trusts where the lease—
(i) is granted otherwise than for the best rent that can reasonably be
obtained; and
(ii) is intended to enable the demised premises to be occupied for the
purposes, or any particular purposes, of the charity.
(10) Nothing in this section applies—
(a) to any disposition of land held by or in trust for an exempt charity;
(b) to any disposition of land by way of mortgage or other security; or
(c) to any disposition of an advowson.
(11) In this section “land” means land in England or Wales.
37 Supplementary provisions relating to dispositions.
(1) Any of the following instruments, namely—
(a) any contract for the sale, or for a lease or other disposition, of land which is
held by or in trust for a charity, and
(b) any conveyance, transfer, lease or other instrument effecting a disposition of
such land,
shall state—
(i) that the land is held by or in trust for a charity,
(ii) whether the charity is an exempt charity and whether the disposition
is one falling within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (9) of
section 36 above, and
(iii) if it is not an exempt charity and the disposition is not one falling within
any of those paragraphs, that the land is land to which the restrictions
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(2) Where any land held by or in trust for a charity is sold, leased or otherwise disposed of
by a disposition to which subsection (1) or (2) of section 36 above applies, the charity
trustees shall certify in the instrument by which the disposition is effected—
(a) (where subsection (1) of that section applies) that the disposition has been
sanctioned by an order of the court or of the Commissioners (as the case may
be), or
(b) (where subsection (2) of that section applies) that the charity trustees have
power under the trusts of the charity to effect the disposition, and that they have
complied with the provisions of that section so far as applicable to it.
(3) Where subsection (2) above has been complied with in relation to any disposition of
land, then in favour of a person who (whether under the disposition or afterwards)
acquires an interest in the land for money or money’s worth, it shall be conclusively
presumed that the facts were as stated in the certificate.
(4) Where—
(a) any land held by or in trust for a charity is sold, leased or otherwise disposed of
by a disposition to which subsection (1) or (2) of section 36 above applies, but
(b) subsection (2) above has not been complied with in relation to the disposition,
then in favour of a person who (whether under the disposition or afterwards) in good
faith acquires an interest in the land for money or money’s worth, the disposition shall
be valid whether or not—
(i) the disposition has been sanctioned by an order of the court or of the
Commissioners, or
(ii) the charity trustees have power under the trusts of the charity to effect
the disposition and have complied with the provisions of that section
so far as applicable to it.
(5) Any of the following instruments, namely—
(a) any contract for the sale, or for a lease or other disposition, of land which will,
as a result of the disposition, be held by or in trust for a charity, and
(b) any conveyance, transfer, lease or other instrument effecting a disposition of
such land,
shall state—
(i) that the land will, as a result of the disposition, be held by or in trust for a charity,
(ii) whether the charity is an exempt charity, and
(iii) if it is not an exempt charity, that the restrictions on disposition imposed
by section 36 above will apply to the land (subject to subsection (9)
of that section).
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(7) Where—
(a) the disposition to be effected by any such instrument as is mentioned in
subsection (1)(b) or (5)(b) above will be a registered disposition, or
(b) any such instrument will on taking effect be an instrument [F13 in relation
to which section 123A ] of the M23 Land Registration Act 1925 (compulsory
registration of title) applies,
the statement which, by virtue of subsection (1) or (5) above, is to be contained in the
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(8) Where—
(a) an application is duly made—
(i) for registration of a disposition of registered land, or
(ii) for registration of a person’s title under a disposition of unregistered
land, and
(b) the instrument by which the disposition is effected contains a statement
complying with subsections (5) and (7) above, and
(c) the charity by or in trust for which the land is held as a result of the disposition
is not an exempt charity,
the registrar shall enter in the register, in respect of the land, a restriction in such form
as may be prescribed.
(9) Where—
(a) any such restriction is entered in the register in respect of any land, and
(b) the charity by or in trust for which the land is held becomes an exempt charity,
the charity trustees shall apply to the registrar for the restriction to be withdrawn; and on
receiving any application duly made under this subsection the registrar shall withdraw
the restriction.
(10) Where—
(a) any registered land is held by or in trust for an exempt charity and the charity
ceases to be an exempt charity, or
(b) any registered land becomes, as a result of a declaration of trust by the registered
proprietor, land held in trust for a charity (other than an exempt charity),
the charity trustees shall apply to the registrar for such a restriction as is mentioned
in subsection (8) above to be entered in the register in respect of the land; and on
receiving any application duly made under this subsection the registrar shall enter such
a restriction in the register in respect of the land.
(11) In this section—
(a) references to a disposition of land do not include references to—
(i) a disposition of land by way of mortgage or other security,
(ii) any disposition of an advowson, or
(iii) any release of a rentcharge falling within section 40(1) below; and
(b) “land” means land in England or Wales;
and subsections (7) to (10) above shall be construed as one with the M24 Land Registration
Act 1925.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F12 S. 37(6) repealed (1.1.1997) by 1996 c. 47 , s. 25(2) , Sch. 4 (with s. 24(2) , 25(4) ); S.I. 1996/2974 , art. 2
F13 Words in s. 37(7)(b) substituted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 2 , s. 4(1) , Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 6(1) ; S.I. 1997/3036 ,
art. 2(b) , art. 2
Marginal Citations
M23 1925 c. 21 .
M24 1925 c. 21 .

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38 Restrictions on mortgaging.
(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, no mortgage of land held by or in trust for a charity
shall be granted without an order of the court or of the Commissioners.
(2) Subsection (1) above shall not apply to a mortgage of any such land by way of security
for the repayment of a loan where the charity trustees have, before executing the
mortgage, obtained and considered proper advice, given to them in writing, on the
matters mentioned in subsection (3) below.
(3) Those matters are—
(a) whether the proposed loan is necessary in order for the charity trustees to be
able to pursue the particular course of action in connection with which the loan
is sought by them;
(b) whether the terms of the proposed loan are reasonable having regard to the
status of the charity as a prospective borrower; and
(c) the ability of the charity to repay on those terms the sum proposed to be
borrowed.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2) above proper advice is the advice of a person—
(a) who is reasonably believed by the charity trustees to be qualified by his ability
in and practical experience of financial matters; and
(b) who has no financial interest in the making of the loan in question;
and such advice may constitute proper advice for those purposes notwithstanding that
the person giving it does so in the course of his employment as an officer or employee
of the charity or of the charity trustees.
(5) This section applies notwithstanding anything in the trusts of a charity; but nothing in
this section applies to any mortgage for which general or special authority is given as
mentioned in section 36(9)(a) above.
(6) In this section—
“land” means land in England or Wales;
“mortgage” includes a charge.
(7) Nothing in this section applies to an exempt charity.
39 Supplementary provisions relating to mortgaging.
(1) Any mortgage of land held by or in trust for a charity shall state—
(a) that the land is held by or in trust for a charity,
(b) whether the charity is an exempt charity and whether the mortgage is one falling
within subsection (5) of section 38 above, and
(c) if it is not an exempt charity and the mortgage is not one falling within that
subsection, that the mortgage is one to which the restrictions imposed by that
section apply;
and where the mortgage will be a registered disposition any such statement shall be in
such form as may be prescribed.
[F14 (1A) Where any such mortgage will be one falling within section 123(2) of the Land
Registration Act 1925—
(a) the statement required by subsection (1) above shall be in such form as may
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(b) if the charity is not an exempt charity, the mortgage shall also contain a
statement, in such form as may be prescribed, that the restrictions on disposition
imposed by section 36 above apply to the land (subject to subsection (9) of that
section).
(1B) Where—
(a) an application is duly made for registration of a person’s title to land in
connection with such a mortgage as is mentioned in subsection (1A) above, and
(b) the mortgage contains statements complying with subsections (1) and (1A)
above, and
(c) the charity is not an exempt charity,
the registrar shall enter in the register, in respect of the land, a restriction in such form as
may be prescribed; and section 37(9) above shall apply in relation to any such restriction
as it applies in relation to one entered in pursuance of section 37(8). ] (2) Where subsection (1) or (2) of section 38 above applies to any mortgage of land held
by or in trust for a charity, the charity trustees shall certify in the mortgage—
(a) (where subsection (1) of that section applies) that the mortgage has been
sanctioned by an order of the court or of the Commissioners (as the case may
be), or
(b) (where subsection (2) of that section applies) that the charity trustees have
power under the trusts of the charity to grant the mortgage, and that they have
obtained and considered such advice as is mentioned in that subsection.
(3) Where subsection (2) above has been complied with in relation to any mortgage, then in
favour of a person who (whether under the mortgage or afterwards) acquires an interest
in the land in question for money or money’s worth, it shall be conclusively presumed
that the facts were as stated in the certificate.
(4) Where—
(a) subsection (1) or (2) of section 38 above applies to any mortgage of land held
by or in trust for a charity, but
(b) subsection (2) above has not been complied with in relation to the mortgage,
then in favour of a person who (whether under the mortgage or afterwards) in good
faith acquires an interest in the land for money or money’s worth, the mortgage shall
be valid whether or not—
(i) the mortgage has been sanctioned by an order of the court or of the
Commissioners, or
(ii) the charity trustees have power under the trusts of the charity to grant
the mortgage and have obtained and considered such advice as is
mentioned in subsection (2) of that section.
F15 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6) In this section—
“mortgage” includes a charge, and “mortgagee” shall be construed
accordingly;
“land” means land in England or Wales;
[F16 and subsections (1) to (1B) above shall be construed as one with the Land
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Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F14 S. 39(1A)(1B) inserted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 2 , s. 4(1) , Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 6(2) ; S.I. 1997/3036 , art. 2(b)
F15 S. 39(5) repealed (1.1.1997) by 1996 c. 47 , s.,25(2), Sch. 4 (with s. 24(2), 25(3)(4)(5); S.I. 1996/2974 ,
art. 2
F16 Words in s. 39(6) substituted (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 2 , s. 4(1) , Sch. 1 Pt.I para. 6(3) ; by S.I. 1997/3036 ,
art. 2(b)
40 Release of charity rentcharges.
(1) Section 36(1) above shall not apply to the release by a charity of a rentcharge which it
is entitled to receive if the release is given in consideration of the payment of an amount
which is not less than ten times the annual amount of the rentcharge.
(2) Where a charity which is entitled to receive a rentcharge releases it in consideration
of the payment of an amount not exceeding £500, any costs incurred by the charity in
connection with proving its title to the rentcharge shall be recoverable by the charity
from the person or persons in whose favour the rentcharge is being released.
(3) Neither section 36(1) nor subsection (2) above applies where a rentcharge which a
charity is entitled to receive is redeemed under sections 8 to 10 of the M25 Rentcharges
Act 1977.
(4) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (2) above by substituting a
different sum for the sum for the time being specified there.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M25 1977 c. 30 .
PART VI
CHARITY A CCOUNTS , R EPORTS AND R ETURNS
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C11 Pt. VI (ss. 41-48) modified (1.1.1999) by 1998 No. 1 , s. 3(3) ; Archbishops Instrument dated 14.10.1998
Commencement Information
I2 Pt. VI (ss. 41-48) wholly in force at 1.3.1996; Pt. VI (ss. 41-48) not in force at Royal Assent see s. 99(2) ;
Pt. VI (ss. 41-48) in force for certain purposes at 15.10.1995 by S.I. 1995/2695 , art. 3 (with art. 4 ); Pt.
VI (ss. 41-48) in force for all other purposes at 1.3.1996 by S.I. 1995/2695 , art. 2 (with art. 4 )

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41 Duty to keep accounting records.
(1) The charity trustees of a charity shall ensure that accounting records are kept in respect
of the charity which are sufficient to show and explain all the charity’s transactions,
and which are such as to—
(a) disclose at any time, with reasonable accuracy, the financial position of the
charity at that time, and
(b) enable the trustees to ensure that, where any statements of accounts are prepared
by them under section 42(1) below, those statements of accounts comply with
the requirements of regulations under that provision.
(2) The accounting records shall in particular contain—
(a) entries showing from day to day all sums of money received and expended
by the charity, and the matters in respect of which the receipt and expenditure
takes place; and
(b) a record of the assets and liabilities of the charity.
(3) The charity trustees of a charity shall preserve any accounting records made for the
purposes of this section in respect of the charity for at least six years from the end of
the financial year of the charity in which they are made.
(4) Where a charity ceases to exist within the period of six years mentioned in subsection (3)
above as it applies to any accounting records, the obligation to preserve those records
in accordance with that subsection shall continue to be discharged by the last charity
trustees of the charity, unless the Commissioners consent in writing to the records being
destroyed or otherwise disposed of.
(5) Nothing in this section applies to a charity which is a company.
42 Annual statements of accounts.
(1) The charity trustees of a charity shall (subject to subsection (3) below) prepare in
respect of each financial year of the charity a statement of accounts complying with
such requirements as to its form and contents as may be prescribed by regulations made
by the Secretary of State.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, regulations under that
subsection may make provision—
(a) for any such statement to be prepared in accordance with such methods and
principles as are specified or referred to in the regulations;
(b) as to any information to be provided by way of notes to the accounts;
and regulations under that subsection may also make provision for determining the
financial years of a charity for the purposes of this Act and any regulations made under
it.
(3) Where a charity’s gross income in any financial year does not exceed [F17 £100,000 ], the
charity trustees may, in respect of that year, elect to prepare the following, namely—
(a) a receipts and payments account, and
(b) a statement of assets and liabilities,
instead of a statement of accounts under subsection (1) above.
(4) The charity trustees of a charity shall preserve—
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(b) any account and statement prepared by them under subsection (3) above,
for at least six years from the end of the financial year to which any such statement
relates or (as the case may be) to which any such account and statement relate.
(5) Subsection (4) of section 41 above shall apply in relation to the preservation of any
such statement or account and statement as it applies in relation to the preservation of
any accounting records (the references to subsection (3) of that section being read as
references to subsection (4) above).
(6) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (3) above by substituting a
different sum for the sum for the time being specified there.
(7) Nothing in this section applies to a charity which is a company.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F17 Figure in s. 42(3) substituted (1.3.1996) by S.I. 1995/2696 , art. 2(3)
43 Annual audit or examination of charity accounts.
(1) Subsection (2) below applies to a financial year of a charity (“the relevant year”) if the
charity’s gross income or total expenditure in any of the following, namely—
(a) the relevant year,
(b) the financial year of the charity immediately preceding the relevant year (if
any), and
(c) the financial year of the charity immediately preceding the year specified in
paragraph (b) above (if any),
exceeds [F18 £250,000 ].
(2) If this subsection applies to a financial year of a charity, the accounts of the charity for
that year shall be audited by a person who—
(a) is, in accordance with section 25 of the M26 Companies Act 1989 (eligibility for
appointment), eligible for appointment as a company auditor, or
(b) is a member of a body for the time being specified in regulations under
section 44 below and is under the rules of that body eligible for appointment
as auditor of the charity.
(3) If subsection (2) above does not apply to a financial year of a charity [F19 and its gross
income or total expenditure in that year exceeds £10,000 ], then (subject to subsection (4)
below) the accounts of the charity for that year shall, at the election of the charity
trustees, either—
(a) be examined by an independent examiner, that is to say an independent person
who is reasonably believed by the trustees to have the requisite ability and
practical experience to carry out a competent examination of the accounts, or
(b) be audited by such a person as is mentioned in subsection (2) above.
(4) Where it appears to the Commissioners—
(a) that subsection (2), or (as the case may be) subsection (3) above, has not been
complied with in relation to a financial year of a charity within ten months from
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(b) that, although subsection (2) above does not apply to a financial year of a
charity, it would nevertheless be desirable for the accounts of the charity for
that year to be audited by such a person as is mentioned in that subsection,
the Commissioners may by order require the accounts of the charity for that year to be
audited by such a person as is mentioned in that subsection.
(5) If the Commissioners make an order under subsection (4) above with respect to a
charity, then unless—
(a) the order is made by virtue of paragraph (b) of that subsection, and
(b) the charity trustees themselves appoint an auditor in accordance with the order,
the auditor shall be a person appointed by the Commissioners.
(6) The expenses of any audit carried out by an auditor appointed by the Commissioners
under subsection (5) above, including the auditor’s remuneration, shall be recoverable
by the Commissioners—
(a) from the charity trustees of the charity concerned, who shall be personally
liable, jointly and severally, for those expenses; or
(b) to the extent that it appears to the Commissioners not to be practical to seek
recovery of those expenses in accordance with paragraph (a) above, from the
funds of the charity.
(7) The Commissioners may—
(a) give guidance to charity trustees in connection with the selection of a person
for appointment as an independent examiner;
(b) give such directions as they think appropriate with respect to the carrying out
of an examination in pursuance of subsection (3)(a) above;
and any such guidance or directions may either be of general application or apply to
a particular charity only.
(8) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (1) [F20 or (3) ] above by
substituting a different sum for the sum for the time being specified there.
(9) Nothing in this section applies to a charity which is a company.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F18 Figure in s. 43(1) substituted (1.3.1996) by S.I. 1995/2696 , art. 2(3)
F19 Words in s. 43(3) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 28(2) , 82(3)(b)
F20 Words in s. 43(8) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 28(3) , 82(3)(b)
Marginal Citations
M26 1989 c. 40 .
44 Supplementary provisions relating to audits etc.
(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision—
(a) specifying one or more bodies for the purposes of section 43(2)(b) above;
(b) with respect to the duties of an auditor carrying out an audit under section 43
above, including provision with respect to the making by him of a report on—

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(i) the statement of accounts prepared for the financial year in question
under section 42(1) above, or
(ii) the account and statement so prepared under section 42(3) above,
as the case may be;
(c) with respect to the making by an independent examiner of a report in respect
of an examination carried out by him under section 43 above;
(d) conferring on such an auditor or on an independent examiner a right of access
with respect to books, documents and other records (however kept) which relate
to the charity concerned;
(e) entitling such an auditor or an independent examiner to require, in the case of
a charity, information and explanations from past or present charity trustees or
trustees for the charity, or from past or present officers or employees of the
charity;
(f) enabling the Commissioners, in circumstances specified in the regulations, to
dispense with the requirements of section 43(2) or (3) above in the case of a
particular charity or in the case of any particular financial year of a charity.
(2) If any person fails to afford an auditor or an independent examiner any facility to which
he is entitled by virtue of subsection (1)(d) or (e) above, the Commissioners may by
order give—
(a) to that person, or
(b) to the charity trustees for the time being of the charity concerned,
such directions as the Commissioners think appropriate for securing that the default is
made good.
(3) Section 727 of the M27 Companies Act 1985 (power of court to grant relief in certain
cases) shall have effect in relation to an auditor or independent examiner appointed by a
charity in pursuance of section 43 above as it has effect in relation to a person employed
as auditor by a company within the meaning of that Act.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M27 1985 c. 6 .
45 Annual reports.
(1) The charity trustees of a charity shall prepare in respect of each financial year of the
charity an annual report containing—
(a) such a report by the trustees on the activities of the charity during that year, and
(b) such other information relating to the charity or to its trustees or officers,
as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, regulations under that
subsection may make provision—
(a) for any such report as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection to be
prepared in accordance with such principles as are specified or referred to in
the regulations;
(b) enabling the Commissioners to dispense with any requirement prescribed by
virtue of subsection (1)(b) above in the case of a particular charity or a particular

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class of charities, or in the case of a particular financial year of a charity or of
any class of charities.
(3) [F21 Where in any financial year of a charity its gross income or total expenditure exceeds
£10,000, the annual report required to be prepared under this section in respect of that
year ] shall be transmitted to the Commissioners by the charity trustees—
(a) within ten months from the end of that year, or
(b) within such longer period as the Commissioners may for any special reason
allow in the case of that report.
[F22 (3A) Where in any financial year of a charity neither its gross income nor its total expenditure
exceeds £10,000, the annual report required to be prepared under this section in respect
of that year shall, if the Commissioners so request, be transmitted to them by the charity
trustees—
(a) in the case of a request made before the end of seven months from the end of
the financial year to which the report relates, within ten months from the end
of that year, and
(b) in the case of a request not so made, within three months from the date of the
request,
or, in either case, within such longer period as the Commissioners may for any special
reason allow in the case of that report. ] (4) Subject to subsection (5) below, [F23 any annual report transmitted to the Commissioners
under this section ]shall have attached to it the statement of accounts prepared for the
financial year in question under section 42(1) above or (as the case may be) the account
and statement so prepared under section 42(3) above, together with—
(a) where the accounts of the charity for that year have been audited under
section 43 above, a copy of the report made by the auditor on that statement of
accounts or (as the case may be) on that account and statement;
(b) where the accounts of the charity for that year have been examined under
section 43 above, a copy of the report made by the independent examiner in
respect of the examination carried out by him under that section.
(5) Subsection (4) above does not apply to a charity which is a company, and any annual
report transmitted by the charity trustees of such a charity under [F24 this section ] shall
instead have attached to it a copy of the charity’s annual accounts prepared for the
financial year in question under Part VII of the M28 Companies Act 1985, together with
a copy of [F25 any auditors’ report or report made for the purposes of section 249A(2)
of that Act ] on those accounts.
(6) Any annual report transmitted to the Commissioners under [F24 this section ], together
with the documents attached to it, shall be kept by the Commissioners for such period
as they think fit.
[F26 (7) The charity trustees of a charity shall preserve, for at least six years from the
end of the financial year to which it relates, any annual report prepared by them
under subsection (1) above which they have not been required to transmit to the
Commissioners.
(8) Subsection (4) of section 41 above shall apply in relation to the preservation of any such
annual report as it applies in relation to the preservation of any accounting records (the
references in subsection (3) of that section being read as references to subsection (7)
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(9) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (3) or (3A) above by substituting
a different sum for the sum for the time being specified there. ] Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F21 Words in s. 45(3) substituted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 29(1) , 82(3)(b)
F22 S. 45(3A) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 29(2) , 82(3)(b)
F23 Words in s. 45(4) substituted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 29(3) , 82(3)(b)
F24 Words in s. 45(5)(6) substituted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 29(4)(5) , 82(3)(b)
F25 Words in s. 45(5) substituted (11.8.1994) by S.I. 1994/1935 reg. 4, Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 6
F26 S. 45(7)-(9) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 29(6) , 82(3)(b)
Marginal Citations
M28 1985 c. 6 .
45 Annual reports. E+W
(1) The charity trustees of a charity shall prepare in respect of each financial year of the
charity an annual report containing—
(a) such a report by the trustees on the activities of the charity during that year, and
(b) such other information relating to the charity or to its trustees or officers,
as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, regulations under that
subsection may make provision—
(a) for any such report as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of that subsection to be
prepared in accordance with such principles as are specified or referred to in
the regulations;
(b) enabling the Commissioners to dispense with any requirement prescribed by
virtue of subsection (1)(b) above in the case of a particular charity or a particular
class of charities, or in the case of a particular financial year of a charity or of
any class of charities.
(3) The annual report required to be prepared under this section in respect of any financial
year of a charity shall be transmitted to the Commissioners by the charity trustees—
(a) within ten months from the end of that year, or
(b) within such longer period as the Commissioners may for any special reason
allow in the case of that report.
(4) Subject to subsection (5) below, any such annual report shall have attached to it the
statement of accounts prepared for the financial year in question under section 42(1)
above or (as the case may be) the account and statement so prepared under section 42(3)
above, together with—
(a) where the accounts of the charity for that year have been audited under
section 43 above, a copy of the report made by the auditor on that statement of
accounts or (as the case may be) on that account and statement;
(b) where the accounts of the charity for that year have been examined under
section 43 above, a copy of the report made by the independent examiner in
respect of the examination carried out by him under that section.

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(5) Subsection (4) above does not apply to a charity which is a company, and any annual
report transmitted by the charity trustees of such a charity under subsection (3) above
shall instead have attached to it a copy of the charity’s annual accounts prepared for the
financial year in question under Part VII of the M95 Companies Act 1985, together with
a copy of [F76 any auditors’ report or report made for the purposes of section 249A(2)
of that Act on those accounts.
(6) Any annual report transmitted to the Commissioners under subsection (3) above,
together with the documents attached to it, shall be kept by the Commissioners for such
period as they think fit.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F76 Words in s. 45(5) substituted (11.8.1994) by S.I. 1994/1935 reg. 4, Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 6
Marginal Citations
M95 1985 c. 6 .
46 Special provision as respects accounts and annual reports of exempt and other
excepted charities.
(1) Nothing in sections 41 to 45 above applies to any exempt charity; but the charity
trustees of an exempt charity shall keep proper books of account with respect to the
affairs of the charity, and if not required by or under the authority of any other Act
to prepare periodical statements of account shall prepare consecutive statements of
account consisting on each occasion of an income and expenditure account relating to
a period of not more than fifteen months and a balance sheet relating to the end of that
period.
(2) The books of accounts and statements of account relating to an exempt charity shall
be preserved for a period of six years at least unless the charity ceases to exist and the
Commissioners consent in writing to their being destroyed or otherwise disposed of.
(3) Nothing in sections 43 to 45 above applies to any charity which—
(a) falls within section 3(5)(c) above, and
(b) is not registered.
(4) Except in accordance with subsection (7) below, nothing in section 45 above applies to
any charity (other than an exempt charity or a charity which falls within section 3(5)
(c) above) which—
(a) is excepted by section 3(5) above, and
(b) is not registered.
(5) If requested to do so by the Commissioners, the charity trustees of any such charity as
is mentioned in subsection (4) above shall prepare an annual report in respect of such
financial year of the charity as is specified in the Commissioners’ request.
(6) Any report prepared under subsection (5) above shall contain—
(a) such a report by the charity trustees on the activities of the charity during the
year in question, and
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as may be prescribed by regulations made under section 45(1) above in relation to
annual reports prepared under that provision.
(7) Subsections (3) to (6) of section 45 [F27 (as originally enacted) ] above shall apply to any
report required to be prepared under subsection (5) above as if it were an annual report
required to be prepared under subsection (1) of that section.
(8) Any reference in this section to a charity which falls within section 3(5)(c) above
includes a reference to a charity which falls within that provision but is also excepted
from registration by section 3(5)(b) above.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F27 Words in s. 46(7) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 29(7) , 82(3)(b)
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(1) Nothing in sections 41 to 45 above applies to any exempt charity; but the charity
trustees of an exempt charity shall keep proper books of account with respect to the
affairs of the charity, and if not required by or under the authority of any other Act
to prepare periodical statements of account shall prepare consecutive statements of
account consisting on each occasion of an income and expenditure account relating to
a period of not more than fifteen months and a balance sheet relating to the end of that
period.
(2) The books of accounts and statements of account relating to an exempt charity shall
be preserved for a period of six years at least unless the charity ceases to exist and the
Commissioners consent in writing to their being destroyed or otherwise disposed of.
(3) Nothing in sections 43 to 45 above applies to any charity which—
(a) falls within section 3(5)(c) above, and
(b) is not registered.
(4) Except in accordance with subsection (7) below, nothing in section 45 above applies to
any charity (other than an exempt charity or a charity which falls within section 3(5)
(c) above) which—
(a) is excepted by section 3(5) above, and
(b) is not registered.
(5) If requested to do so by the Commissioners, the charity trustees of any such charity as
is mentioned in subsection (4) above shall prepare an annual report in respect of such
financial year of the charity as is specified in the Commissioners’ request.
(6) Any report prepared under subsection (5) above shall contain—
(a) such a report by the charity trustees on the activities of the charity during the
year in question, and
(b) such other information relating to the charity or to its trustees or officers,
as may be prescribed by regulations made under section 45(1) above in relation to
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(7) Subsections (3) to (6) of section 45 above shall apply to any report required to be
prepared under subsection (5) above as if it were an annual report required to be
prepared under subsection (1) of that section.
(8) Any reference in this section to a charity which falls within section 3(5)(c) above
includes a reference to a charity which falls within that provision but is also excepted
from registration by section 3(5)(b) above.
47 Public inspection of annual reports etc.
(1) Any annual report or other document kept by the Commissioners in pursuance of
section 45(6) above shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times—
(a) during the period for which it is so kept; or
(b) if the Commissioners so determine, during such lesser period as they may
specify.
(2) Where any person—
(a) requests the charity trustees of a charity in writing to provide him with a copy
of the charity’s most recent accounts, and
(b) pays them such reasonable fee (if any) as they may require in respect of the
costs of complying with the request,
those trustees shall comply with the request within the period of two months beginning
with the date on which it is made.
(3) In subsection (2) above the reference to a charity’s most recent accounts is—F28 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) in the case of [F29 a charity other than one falling within paragraph (c) or (d)
below ], a reference to the statement of accounts or account and statement
prepared in pursuance of section 42(1) or (3) above in respect of the last
financial year of the charity in respect of which a statement of accounts or
account and statement has or have been so prepared;
[F30 (c) in the case of a charity which is a company, a reference to the most recent annual
accounts of the company prepared under Part VII of the Companies Act 1985
in relation to which any of the following conditions is satisfied—
(i) they have been audited
(ii) a report required for the purposes of section 249A(2) of that Act has
been made in respect of them; or
(iii) they relate to a year in respect of which the company is exempt from
audit by virtue of section 249A(1) of that Act; and ] (d) in the case of an exempt charity, a reference to the accounts of the charity most
recently audited in pursuance of any statutory or other requirement or, if its
accounts are not required to be audited, the accounts most recently prepared in
respect of the charity.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F28 S. 47(3)(a) repealed (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 39 , 81, 82(3)(b) , Sch. 11 , para. 12(a) , Sch. 17
F29 Words in s. 47(3)(b) substituted (3.11.1994) by ss. 39, 82(3)(b), Sch. 11 para. 12(b)
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(1) Any annual report or other document kept by the Commissioners in pursuance of
section 45(6) above shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times—
(a) during the period for which it is so kept; or
(b) if the Commissioners so determine, during such lesser period as they may
specify.
(2) Where any person—
(a) requests the charity trustees of a charity in writing to provide him with a copy
of the charity’s most recent accounts, and
(b) pays them such reasonable fee (if any) as they may require in respect of the
costs of complying with the request,
those trustees shall comply with the request within the period of two months beginning
with the date on which it is made.
(3) In subsection (2) above the reference to a charity’s most recent accounts is—
(a) in the case of a charity other than one falling within any of paragraphs (b) to
(d) below, a reference to the statement of accounts or account and statement
prepared in pursuance of section 42(1) or (3) above in respect of the last
financial year of the charity the accounts for which have been audited or
examined under section 43 above;
(b) in the case of such a charity as is mentioned in section 46(3) above, a reference
to the statement of accounts or account and statement prepared in pursuance of
section 42(1) or (3) above in respect of the last financial year of the charity in
respect of which a statement of accounts or account and statement has or have
been so prepared;
[F77 (c) in the case of a charity which is a company, a reference to the most recent annual
accounts of the company prepared under Part VII of the Companies Act 1985
in relation to which any of the following conditions is satisfied—
(i) they have been audited
(ii) a report required for the purposes of section 249A(2) of that Act has
been made in respect of them; or
(iii) they relate to a year in respect of which the company is exempt from
audit by virtue of section 249A(1) of that Act; and
(d) in the case of an exempt charity, a reference to the accounts of the charity most
recently audited in pursuance of any statutory or other requirement or, if its
accounts are not required to be audited, the accounts most recently prepared in
respect of the charity.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F77 S. 47(3)(c) substituted (11.8.1994) by S.I. 1994/1935 , reg. 4 , Sch. 1 Pt. II para. 7
48 Annual returns by registered charities.
(1) [F31 Subject to subsection (1A) below, ]Every registered charity shall prepare in respect
of each of its financial years an annual return in such form, and containing such
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[F32 (1A) Subsection (1) above shall not apply in relation to any financial year of a charity
in which neither the gross income nor the total expenditure of the charity exceeds
£10,000. ] (2) Any such return shall be transmitted to the Commissioners by the date by which the
charity trustees are, by virtue of section 45(3) above, required to transmit to them the
annual report required to be prepared in respect of the financial year in question.
(3) The Commissioners may dispense with the requirements of subsection (1) above in the
case of a particular charity or a particular class of charities, or in the case of a particular
financial year of a charity or of any class of charities.
[F33 (4) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (1A) above by substituting a
different sum for the sum for the time being specified there. ] Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F31 Words in s. 48(1) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 30(2) , 82(3)(b)
F32 S. 48(1A) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 30(3) , 82(3)(b)
F33 S. 48(4) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 30(4) , 82(3)(b)
49 Offences.
Any person who, without reasonable excuse, is persistently in default in relation to any
requirement imposed—
(a) by section 45(3) [F34 or (3A) ] above (taken with section 45(4) or (5), as the case
may require), or
(b) by section 47(2) or 48(2) above,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
level 4 on the standard scale.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F34 Words in s. 49(a) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40 , ss. 29(8) , 82(3)(b)
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Any person who, without reasonable excuse, is persistently in default in relation to any
requirement imposed—
(a) by section 45(3) above (taken with section 45(4) or (5), as the case may require),
or
(b) by section 47(2) or 48(2) above,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
level 4 on the standard scale.

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PART VII
INCORPORATION OF C HARITY TRUSTEES
50 Incorporation of trustees of a charity.
(1) Where—
(a) the trustees of a charity, in accordance with section 52 below, apply to the
Commissioners for a certificate of incorporation of the trustees as a body
corporate, and
(b) the Commissioners consider that the incorporation of the trustees would be in
the interests of the charity,
the Commissioners may grant such a certificate, subject to such conditions or directions
as they think fit to insert in it.
(2) The Commissioners shall not, however, grant such a certificate in a case where the
charity appears to them to be required to be registered under section 3 above but is not
so registered.
(3) On the grant of such a certificate—
(a) the trustees of the charity shall become a body corporate by such name as is
specified in the certificate; and
(b) (without prejudice to the operation of section 54 below) any relevant rights or
liabilities of those trustees shall become rights or liabilities of that body.
(4) After their incorporation the trustees—
(a) may sue and be sued in their corporate name; and
(b) shall have the same powers, and be subject to the same restrictions and
limitations, as respects the holding, acquisition and disposal of property for or
in connection with the purposes of the charity as they had or were subject to
while unincorporated;
and any relevant legal proceedings that might have been continued or commenced by
or against the trustees may be continued or commenced by or against them in their
corporate name.
(5) A body incorporated under this section need not have a common seal.
(6) In this section—
“relevant rights or liabilities” means rights or liabilities in connection with
any property vesting in the body in question under section 51 below; and
“relevant legal proceedings” means legal proceedings in connection with any
such property.
51 Estate to vest in body corporate.
The certificate of incorporation shall vest in the body corporate all real and personal
estate, of whatever nature or tenure, belonging to or held by any person or persons in
trust for the charity, and thereupon any person or persons in whose name or names any
stocks, funds or securities are standing in trust for the charity, shall transfer them into
the name of the body corporate, except that the foregoing provisions shall not apply to
property vested in the official custodian.

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52 Applications for incorporation.
(1) Every application to the Commissioners for a certificate of incorporation under this Part
of this Act shall—
(a) be in writing and signed by the trustees of the charity concerned; and
(b) be accompanied by such documents or information as the Commissioners may
require for the purpose of the application.
(2) The Commissioners may require—
(a) any statement contained in any such application, or
(b) any document or information supplied under subsection (1)(b) above,
to be verified in such manner as they may specify.
53 Nomination of trustees, and filling up vacancies.
(1) Before a certificate of incorporation is granted under this Part of this Act, trustees of the
charity must have been effectually appointed to the satisfaction of the Commissioners.
(2) Where a certificate of incorporation is granted vacancies in the number of the trustees
of the charity shall from time to time be filled up so far as required by the constitution
or settlement of the charity, or by any conditions or directions in the certificate, by such
legal means as would have been available for the appointment of new trustees of the
charity if no certificate of incorporation had been granted, or otherwise as required by
such conditions or directions.
54 Liability of trustees and others, notwithstanding incorporation.
After a certificate of incorporation has been granted under this Part of this Act all
trustees of the charity, notwithstanding their incorporation, shall be chargeable for such
property as shall come into their hands, and shall be answerable and accountable for
their own acts, receipts, neglects, and defaults, and for the due administration of the
charity and its property, in the same manner and to the same extent as if no such
incorporation had been effected.
55 Certificate to be evidence of compliance with requirements for incorporation.
A certificate of incorporation granted under this Part of this Act shall be conclusive
evidence that all the preliminary requirements for incorporation under this Part of this
Act have been complied with, and the date of incorporation mentioned in the certificate
shall be deemed to be the date at which incorporation has taken place.
56 Power of Commissioners to amend certificate of incorporation.
(1) The Commissioners may amend a certificate of incorporation either on the application
of the incorporated body to which it relates or of their own motion.
(2) Before making any such amendment of their own motion, the Commissioners shall by
notice in writing—
(a) inform the trustees of the relevant charity of their proposals, and
(b) invite those trustees to make representations to them within a time specified in
the notice, being not less than one month from the date of the notice.

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(3) The Commissioners shall take into consideration any representations made by those
trustees within the time so specified, and may then (without further notice) proceed
with their proposals either without modification or with such modifications as appear
to them to be desirable.
(4) The Commissioners may amend a certificate of incorporation either—
(a) by making an order specifying the amendment; or
(b) by issuing a new certificate of incorporation taking account of the amendment.
57 Records of applications and certificates.
(1) The Commissioners shall keep a record of all applications for, and certificates of,
incorporation under this Part of this Act and shall preserve all documents sent to them
under this Part of this Act.
(2) Any person may inspect such documents, under the direction of the Commissioners,
and any person may require a copy or extract of any such document to be certified by
a certificate signed by the secretary of the Commissioners.
58 Enforcement of orders and directions.
All conditions and directions inserted in any certificate of incorporation shall be binding
upon and performed or observed by the trustees as trusts of the charity, and section 88
below shall apply to any trustee who fails to perform or observe any such condition
or direction as it applies to a person guilty of disobedience to any such order of the
Commissioners as is mentioned in that section.
59 Gifts to charity before incorporation to have same effect afterwards.
After the incorporation of the trustees of any charity under this Part of this Act every
donation, gift and disposition of property, real or personal, lawfully made before the
incorporation but not having actually taken effect, or thereafter lawfully made, by deed,
will or otherwise to or in favour of the charity, or the trustees of the charity, or otherwise
for the purposes of the charity, shall take effect as if made to or in favour of the
incorporated body or otherwise for the like purposes.
60 Execution of documents by incorporated body.
(1) This section has effect as respects the execution of documents by an incorporated body.
(2) If an incorporated body has a common seal, a document may be executed by the body
by the affixing of its common seal.
(3) Whether or not it has a common seal, a document may be executed by an incorporated
body either—
(a) by being signed by a majority of the trustees of the relevant charity and
expressed (in whatever form of words) to be executed by the body; or
(b) by being executed in pursuance of an authority given under subsection (4)
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(4) For the purposes of subsection (3)(b) above the trustees of the relevant charity in the
case of an incorporated body may, subject to the trusts of the charity, confer on any two
or more of their number—
(a) a general authority, or
(b) an authority limited in such manner as the trustees think fit,
to execute in the name and on behalf of the body documents for giving effect to
transactions to which the body is a party.
(5) An authority under subsection (4) above—
(a) shall suffice for any document if it is given in writing or by resolution of a
meeting of the trustees of the relevant charity, notwithstanding the want of
any formality that would be required in giving an authority apart from that
subsection;
(b) may be given so as to make the powers conferred exercisable by any of the
trustees, or may be restricted to named persons or in any other way;
(c) subject to any such restriction, and until it is revoked, shall, notwithstanding
any change in the trustees of the relevant charity, have effect as a continuing
authority given by the trustees from time to time of the charity and exercisable
by such trustees.
(6) In any authority under subsection (4) above to execute a document in the name and
on behalf of an incorporated body there shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be
implied authority also to execute it for the body in the name and on behalf of the official
custodian or of any other person, in any case in which the trustees could do so.
(7) A document duly executed by an incorporated body which makes it clear on its face that
it is intended by the person or persons making it to be a deed has effect, upon delivery,
as a deed; and it shall be presumed, unless a contrary intention is proved, to be delivered
upon its being so executed.
(8) In favour of a purchaser a document shall be deemed to have been duly executed by
such a body if it purports to be signed—
(a) by a majority of the trustees of the relevant charity, or
(b) by such of the trustees of the relevant charity as are authorised by the trustees
of that charity to execute it in the name and on behalf of the body,
and, where the document makes it clear on its face that it is intended by the person
or persons making it to be a deed, it shall be deemed to have been delivered upon its
being executed.
For this purpose “purchaser” means a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration
and includes a lessee, mortgagee or other person who for valuable consideration
acquires an interest in property.
61 Power of Commissioners to dissolve incorporated body.
(1) Where the Commissioners are satisfied—
(a) that an incorporated body has no assets or does not operate, or
(b) that the relevant charity in the case of an incorporated body has ceased to exist,
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(c) that the institution previously constituting, or treated by them as constituting,
any such charity has ceased to be, or (as the case may be) was not at the time
of the body’s incorporation, a charity, or
(d) that the purposes of the relevant charity in the case of an incorporated body
have been achieved so far as is possible or are in practice incapable of being
achieved,
they may of their own motion make an order dissolving the body as from such date as
is specified in the order.
(2) Where the Commissioners are satisfied, on the application of the trustees of the relevant
charity in the case of an incorporated body, that it would be in the interests of the charity
for that body to be dissolved, the Commissioners may make an order dissolving the
body as from such date as is specified in the order.
(3) Subject to subsection (4) below, an order made under this section with respect to an
incorporated body shall have the effect of vesting in the trustees of the relevant charity,
in trust for that charity, all property for the time being vested—
(a) in the body, or
(b) in any other person (apart from the official custodian),
in trust for that charity.
(4) If the Commissioners so direct in the order—
(a) all or any specified part of that property shall, instead of vesting in the trustees
of the relevant charity, vest—
(i) in a specified person as trustee for, or nominee of, that charity, or
(ii) in such persons (other than the trustees of the relevant charity) as may
be specified;
(b) any specified investments, or any specified class or description of investments,
held by any person in trust for the relevant charity shall be transferred—
(i) to the trustees of that charity, or
(ii) to any such person or persons as is or are mentioned in paragraph (a)
(i) or (ii) above;
and for this purpose “specified” means specified by the Commissioners in the order.
(5) Where an order to which this subsection applies is made with respect to an incorporated
body—
(a) any rights or liabilities of the body shall become rights or liabilities of the
trustees of the relevant charity; and
(b) any legal proceedings that might have been continued or commenced by or
against the body may be continued or commenced by or against those trustees.
(6) Subsection (5) above applies to any order under this section by virtue of which—
(a) any property vested as mentioned in subsection (3) above is vested—
(i) in the trustees of the relevant charity, or
(ii) in any person as trustee for, or nominee of, that charity; or
(b) any investments held by any person in trust for the relevant charity are required
to be transferred—
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(7) Any order made by the Commissioners under this section may be varied or revoked by
a further order so made.
62 Interpretation of Part VII.
In this Part of this Act—
“incorporated body” means a body incorporated under section 50 above;
“the relevant charity”, in relation to an incorporated body, means the charity the trustees
of which have been incorporated as that body;
“the trustees”, in relation to a charity, means the charity trustees.
PART VIII
CHARITABLE C OMPANIES
63 Winding up.
(1) Where a charity may be wound up by the High Court under the M29 Insolvency Act
1986, a petition for it to be wound up under that Act by any court in England or Wales
having jurisdiction may be presented by the Attorney General, as well as by any person
authorised by that Act.
(2) Where a charity may be so wound up by the High Court, such a petition may also be
presented by the Commissioners if, at any time after they have instituted an inquiry
under section 8 above with respect to the charity, they are satisfied as mentioned in
section 18(1)(a) or (b) above.
(3) Where a charitable company is dissolved, the Commissioners may make an application
under section 651 of the M30 Companies Act 1985 (power of court to declare dissolution
of company void) for an order to be made under that section with respect to the
company; and for this purpose subsection (1) of that section shall have effect in relation
to a charitable company as if the reference to the liquidator of the company included
a reference to the Commissioners.
(4) Where a charitable company’s name has been struck off the register of companies under
section 652 of the Companies Act 1985 (power of registrar to strike defunct company
off register), the Commissioners may make an application under section 653(2) of that
Act (objection to striking off by person aggrieved) for an order restoring the company’s
name to that register; and for this purpose section 653(2) shall have effect in relation
to a charitable company as if the reference to any such person aggrieved as is there
mentioned included a reference to the Commissioners.
(5) The powers exercisable by the Commissioners by virtue of this section shall be
exercisable by them of their own motion, but shall be exercisable only with the
agreement of the Attorney General on each occasion.
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M29 1986 c. 45 .
M30 1985 c. 6 .
64 Alteration of objects clause.
(1) Where a charity is a company or other body corporate having power to alter the
instruments establishing or regulating it as a body corporate, no exercise of that power
which has the effect of the body ceasing to be a charity shall be valid so as to affect
the application of—
(a) any property acquired under any disposition or agreement previously made
otherwise than for full consideration in money or money’s worth, or any
property representing property so acquired,
(b) any property representing income which has accrued before the alteration is
made, or
(c) the income from any such property as aforesaid.
(2) Where a charity is a company, any alteration by it—
(a) of the objects clause in its memorandum of association, or
(b) of any other provision in its memorandum of association, or any provision in its
articles of association, which is a provision directing or restricting the manner
in which property of the company may be used or applied,
is ineffective without the prior written consent of the Commissioners.
(3) Where a company has made any such alteration in accordance with subsection (2) above
and—
(a) in connection with the alteration is required by virtue of—
(i) section 6(1) of the Companies Act 1985 (delivery of documents
following alteration of objects), or
(ii) that provision as applied by section 17(3) of that Act (alteration
of condition in memorandum which could have been contained in
articles),
to deliver to the registrar of companies a printed copy of its memorandum, as
altered, or
(b) is required by virtue of section 380(1) of that Act (registration etc. of resolutions
and agreements) to forward to the registrar a printed or other copy of the special
resolution effecting the alteration,
the copy so delivered or forwarded by the company shall be accompanied by a copy
of the Commissioner’s consent.
(4) Section 6(3) of that Act (offences) shall apply to any default by a company in complying
with subsection (3) above as it applies to any such default as is mentioned in that
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65 Invalidity of certain transactions.
(1) Sections 35 and 35A of the M31 Companies Act 1985 (capacity of company not limited
by its memorandum; power of directors to bind company) do not apply to the acts of a
company which is a charity except in favour of a person who—
(a) gives full consideration in money or money’s worth in relation to the act in
question, and
(b) does not know that the act is not permitted by the company’s memorandum or,
as the case may be, is beyond the powers of the directors,
or who does not know at the time the act is done that the company is a charity.
(2) However, where such a company purports to transfer or grant an interest in property, the
fact that the act was not permitted by the company’s memorandum or, as the case may
be, that the directors in connection with the act exceeded any limitation on their powers
under the company’s constitution, does not affect the title of a person who subsequently
acquires the property or any interest in it for full consideration without actual notice of
any such circumstances affecting the validity of the company’s act.
(3) In any proceedings arising out of subsection (1) above the burden of proving—
(a) that a person knew that an act was not permitted by the company’s
memorandum or was beyond the powers of the directors, or
(b) that a person knew that the company was a charity,
lies on the person making that allegation.
(4) Where a company is a charity, the ratification of an act under section 35(3) of the
Companies Act 1985, or the ratification of a transaction to which section 322A of that
Act applies (invalidity of certain transactions to which directors or their associates are
parties), is ineffective without the prior written consent of the Commissioners.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M31 1985 c. 6 .
66 Requirement of consent of Commissioners to certain acts.
(1) Where a company is a charity—
(a) any approval given by the company for the purposes of any of the provisions
of the M32 Companies Act 1985 specified in subsection (2) below, and
(b) any affirmation by it for the purposes of section 322(2)(c) of that Act
(affirmation of voidable arrangements under which assets are acquired by or
from a director or person connected with him),
is ineffective without the prior written consent of the Commissioners.
(2) The provisions of the Companies Act 1985 referred to in subsection (1)(a) above are—
(a) section 312 (payment to director in respect of loss of office or retirement);
(b) section 313(1) (payment to director in respect of loss of office or retirement
made in connection with transfer of undertaking or property of company);
(c) section 319(3) (incorporation in director’s service contract of term whereby his
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(d) section 320(1) (arrangement whereby assets are acquired by or from director
or person connected with him);
(e) section 337(3)(a) (provision of funds to meet certain expenses incurred by
director).
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M32 1985 c. 6 .
67 Name to appear on correspondence etc.
Section 30(7) of the Companies Act 1985 (exemption from requirements relating to
publication of name etc.) shall not, in its application to any company which is a charity,
have the effect of exempting the company from the requirements of section 349(1) of
that Act (company’s name to appear in its correspondence etc.)
68 Status to appear on correspondence etc.
(1) Where a company is a charity and its name does not include the word “charity” or the
word “charitable” [F35 then, subject to subsection (1A) ], the fact that the company is a
charity shall be stated F36 . . . in legible characters—
(a) in all business letters of the company,
(b) in all its notices and other official publications,
(c) in all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders
for money or goods purporting to be signed on behalf of the company,
(d) in all conveyances purporting to be executed by the company, and
(e) in all bills rendered by it and in all its invoices, receipts, and letters of credit.
[F37 (1A) Where a company’s name includes the word “elusen” or the word “elusennol” (the
Welsh equivalents of the words “charity” and “charitable”), subsection (1) above shall
not apply in relation to any document which is wholly in Welsh.
(1B) The statement required by subsection (1) above shall be in English, except that, in the
case of a document which is otherwise wholly in Welsh, the statement may be in Welsh
if it consists of or includes the word “elusen” or the word “elusennol”. ] (2) In subsection (1)(d) above “conveyance” means any instrument creating, transferring,
varying or extinguishing an interest in land.
(3) Subsections (2) to (4) of section 349 of the M33 Companies Act 1985 (offences in
connection with failure to include required particulars in business letters etc.) shall
apply in relation to a contravention of subsection (1) above, taking the reference in
subsection (3)(b) of that section to a bill of parcels as a reference to any such bill as is
mentioned in subsection (1)(e) above.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F35 Words in s. 68(1) inserted (21.12.1993) by 1993 c. 38 , ss. 33(2)(a) , 36(1)
F36 Words in s. 68(1) repealed (21.12.1993) by 1993 c. 38 , ss. 33(2)(b) , 35(1) , 36(1) , Sch.2
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Marginal Citations
M33 1985 c. 6 .
69 Investigation of accounts.
(1) In the case of a charity which is a company the Commissioners may by order require
that the condition and accounts of the charity for such period as they think fit shall be
investigated and audited by an auditor appointed by them, being a person eligible for
appointment as a company auditor under section 25 of the M34 Companies Act 1989.
(2) An auditor acting under subsection (1) above—
(a) shall have a right of access to all books, accounts and documents relating to
the charity which are in the possession or control of the charity trustees or to
which the charity trustees have access;
(b) shall be entitled to require from any charity trustee, past or present, and from
any past or present officer or employee of the charity such information and
explanation as he thinks necessary for the performance of his duties;
(c) shall at the conclusion or during the progress of the audit make such reports
to the Commissioners about the audit or about the accounts or affairs of the
charity as he thinks the case requires, and shall send a copy of any such report
to the charity trustees.
(3) The expenses of any audit under subsection (1) above, including the remuneration of
the auditor, shall be paid by the Commissioners.
(4) If any person fails to afford an auditor any facility to which he is entitled under
subsection (2) above the Commissioners may by order give to that person or to
the charity trustees for the time being such directions as the Commissioners think
appropriate for securing that the default is made good.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M34 1989 c. 40 .
PART IX
MISCELLANEOUS
Powers of investment
[F38 70 Relaxation of restrictions on wider-range investments.
(1) The Secretary of State may by order made with the consent of the Treasury—
(a) direct that, in the case of a trust fund consisting of property held by or in
trust for a charity, any division of the fund in pursuance of section 2(1) of theM35 Trustee Investments Act 1961 (trust funds to be divided so that wider-range
and narrower-range investments are equal in value) shall be made so that the

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value of the wider-range part at the time of the division bears to the then value
of the narrower-range part such proportion as is specified in the order;
(b) provide that, in its application in relation to such a trust fund, that Act shall
have effect subject to such modifications so specified as the Secretary of
State considers appropriate in consequence of, or in connection with, any such
direction.
(2) Where, before the coming into force of an order under this section, a trust fund
consisting of property held by or in trust for a charity has already been divided in
pursuance of section 2(1) of that Act, the fund may, notwithstanding anything in that
provision, be again divided (once only) in pursuance of that provision during the
continuance in force of the order.
(3) No order shall be made under this section unless a draft of the order has been laid before
and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
(4) Expressions used in this section which are also used in the M36 Trustee Investments Act
1961 have the same meaning as in that Act.
(5) In the application of this section to Scotland, “ charity ” means a recognised body
within the meaning of section 1(7) of the M37 Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions)
(Scotland) Act 1990. ] Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F38 S. 70 repealed (E.W.) (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 29 , s. 40(1)(3) , Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(1) , Sch. 4 Pt. I (with s.
35); S.I. 2001/49 , art. 2
Marginal Citations
M35 1961 c. 62 .
M36 1961 c. 62 .
M37 1990 c. 40 .
[F39 71 Extension of powers of investment.
(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations made with the consent of the Treasury make,
with respect to property held by or in trust for a charity, provision authorising a trustee
to invest such property in any manner specified in the regulations, being a manner of
investment not for the time being included in any Part of Schedule 1 to the Trustee
Investments Act 1961.
(2) Regulations under this section may make such provision—
(a) regulating the investment of property in any manner authorised by virtue of
subsection (1) above, and
(b) with respect to the variation and retention of investments so made,
as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
(3) Such regulations may, in particular, make provision—
(a) imposing restrictions with respect to the proportion of the property held by or
in trust for a charity which may be invested in any manner authorised by virtue
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such manner generally or restrictions applying to investment in any particular
such manner;
(b) imposing the like requirements with respect to the obtaining and consideration
of advice as are imposed by any of the provisions of section 6 of the Trustee
Investments Act 1961 (duty of trustees in choosing investments).
(4) Any power of investment conferred by any regulations under this section—
(a) shall be in addition to, and not in derogation from, any power conferred
otherwise than by such regulations; and
(b) shall not be limited by the trusts of a charity (in so far as they are not contained
in any Act or instrument made under an enactment) unless it is excluded by
those trusts in express terms;
but any such power shall only be exercisable by a trustee in so far as a contrary intention
is not expressed in any Act or in any instrument made under an enactment and relating
to the powers of the trustee.
(5) No regulations shall be made under this section unless a draft of the regulations has
been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
(6) In this section “ property ”—
(a) in England and Wales, means real or personal property of any description,
including money and things in action, but does not include an interest in
expectancy; and
(b) in Scotland, means property of any description (whether heritable or moveable,
corporeal or incorporeal) which is presently enjoyable, but does not include a
future interest, whether vested or contingent;
and any reference to property held by or in trust for a charity is a reference to property
so held, whether it is for the time being in a state of investment or not.
(7) In the application of this section to Scotland, “ charity ” means a recognised body
within the meaning of section 1(7) of the M38 Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions)
(Scotland) Act 1990. ] Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F39 S. 71 repealed (E.W.) (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 29 , s. 40(1)(3) , Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(1) , Sch. 4 Pt. I (with s.
35); S.I. 2001/49 , art. 2
Marginal Citations
M38 1990 c. 40 .
Disqualification for acting as charity trustee
72 Persons disqualified for being trustees of a charity.
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person shall be disqualified for
being a charity trustee or trustee for a charity if—
(a) he has been convicted of any offence involving dishonesty or deception;
(b) he has been adjudged bankrupt or sequestration of his estate has been awarded
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(c) he has made a composition or arrangement with, or granted a trust deed for, his
creditors and has not been discharged in respect of it;
(d) he has been removed from the office of charity trustee or trustee for a charity
by an order made—
(i) by the Commissioners under section 18(2)(i) above, or
(ii) by the Commissioners under section 20(1A)(i) of the M39 Charities Act
1960 (power to act for protection of charities) or under section 20(1)
(i) of that Act (as in force before the commencement of section 8 of
the M40 Charities Act 1992), or
(iii) by the High Court,
on the grounds of any misconduct or mismanagement in the administration of
the charity for which he was responsible or to which he was privy, or which he
by his conduct contributed to or facilitated;
(e) he has been removed, under section 7 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous
Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (powers of Court of Session to deal with
management of charities), from being concerned in the management or control
of any body;
(f) he is subject to a disqualification order [F40 or disqualification
undertaking ]under the M41 Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 [F40 to a
disqualification order under Part II of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order
1989 ] or to an order made under section 429(2)(b) of the M42 Insolvency Act
1986 (failure to pay under county court administration order).
(2) In subsection (1) above—
(a) paragraph (a) applies whether the conviction occurred before or after the
commencement of that subsection, but does not apply in relation to any
conviction which is a spent conviction for the purposes of the M43 Rehabilitation
of Offenders Act 1974;
(b) paragraph (b) applies whether the adjudication of bankruptcy or the
sequestration occurred before or after the commencement of that subsection;
(c) paragraph (c) applies whether the composition or arrangement was made, or the
trust deed was granted, before or after the commencement of that subsection;
and
(d) paragraphs (d) to (f) apply in relation to orders made and removals effected
before or after the commencement of that subsection.
(3) Where (apart from this subsection) a person is disqualified under subsection (1)(b)
above for being a charity trustee or trustee for any charity which is a company, he shall
not be so disqualified if leave has been granted under section 11 of the M44 Company
Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (undischarged bankrupts) for him to act as director
of the charity; and similarly a person shall not be disqualified under subsection (1)(f)
above for being a charity trustee or trustee for such a charity if—
[F41 (a) in the case of a person subject to a disqualification order or disqualification
undertaking under the M45 Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, leave
for the purposes of section 1(1)(a) or 1A(1)(a) of that Act has been granted for
him to act as director of the charity,
(aa) in the case of a person subject to a disqualification order under Part II of the
Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, leave has been granted by the High
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(b) in the case of a person subject to an order under section 429(2)(b) of theM46 Insolvency Act 1986, leave has been granted by the court which made the
order for him to so act.
(4) The Commissioners may, on the application of any person disqualified under
subsection (1) above, waive his disqualification either generally or in relation to a
particular charity or a particular class of charities; but no such waiver may be granted
in relation to any charity which is a company if—
(a) the person concerned is for the time being prohibited, by virtue of—
(i) a disqualification order [F42 or disqualification undertaking ]under the
Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, or
(ii) section 11(1) [F43 12(2) or 12A ] of that Act (undischarged bankrupts;
failure to pay under county court administration order [F44 Northern
Irish disqualification orders ]),
from acting as director of the charity; and
(b) leave has not been granted for him to act as director of any other company.
(5) Any waiver under subsection (4) above shall be notified in writing to the person
concerned.
(6) For the purposes of this section the Commissioners shall keep, in such manner as they
think fit, a register of all persons who have been removed from office as mentioned in
subsection (1)(d) above either—
(a) by an order of the Commissioners made before or after the commencement of
subsection (1) above, or
(b) by an order of the High Court made after the commencement of section 45(1)
of the M47 Charities Act 1992;
and, where any person is so removed from office by an order of the High Court, the
court shall notify the Commissioners of his removal.
(7) The entries in the register kept under subsection (6) above shall be available for public
inspection in legible form at all reasonable times.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F40 Words in s. 72(1)(f) inserted (2.4.2001) by 2000 c. 39 , s. 8 , Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 18(a) ; S.I. 2001/766 , art.
2(1)(a) (subject to transitional provisions in art. 3 )
F41 S. 72(3)(a)(aa) substituted (2.4.2001) for s. 72(3)(a) by 2000 c. 39 , s. 8 , Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 18(b) ; S.I.
2001/766 , art. 2(1)(a) (subject to transitional provisions in art. 3 )
F42 Words in s. 72(4)(a)(i) inserted (2.4.2001) by 2000 c. 39 , s. 8 , Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 18(c)(i) ; S.I. 2001/766 ,
art. 2(1)(a) (subject to transitional provisions in art. 3 )
F43 Words in s. 72(4)(a)(ii) substituted (2.4.2001) by 2000 c. 39 , s. 8 , Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 18(c)(ii) ; S.I.
2001/766 , art. 2(1)(a) (subject to transitional provisions in art. 3 )
F44 Words in s. 72(4)(a)(ii) inserted (2.4.2001) by 2000 c. 39 , s. 8 , Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 18(c)(ii) ; S.I.
2001/766 , art. 2(1)(a) (subject to transitional provisions in art. 3 )
Marginal Citations
M39 1960 c. 58 .
M40 1992 c. 41 .
M41 1986 c. 46 .
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M43 1974 c. 53 .
M44 1986 c. 46 .
M45 1986 c. 46 .
M46 1986 c. 45 .
M47 1992 c. 41 .
73 Person acting as charity trustee while disqualified.
(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, any person who acts as a charity trustee or trustee for
a charity while he is disqualified for being such a trustee by virtue of section 72 above
shall be guilty of an offence and liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months
or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both;
(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years or to a fine, or both.
(2) Subsection (1) above shall not apply where—
(a) the charity concerned is a company; and
(b) the disqualified person is disqualified by virtue only of paragraph (b) or (f) of
section 72(1) above.
(3) Any acts done as charity trustee or trustee for a charity by a person disqualified for
being such a trustee by virtue of section 72 above shall not be invalid by reason only
of that disqualification.
(4) Where the Commissioners are satisfied—
(a) that any person has acted as charity trustee or trustee for a charity (other than
an exempt charity) while disqualified for being such a trustee by virtue of
section 72 above, and
(b) that, while so acting, he has received from the charity any sums by way of
remuneration or expenses, or any benefit in kind, in connection with his acting
as charity trustee or trustee for the charity,
they may by order direct him to repay to the charity the whole or part of any such sums,
or (as the case may be) to pay to the charity the whole or part of the monetary value (as
determined by them) of any such benefit.
(5) Subsection (4) above does not apply to any sums received by way of remuneration or
expenses in respect of any time when the person concerned was not disqualified for
being a charity trustee or trustee for the charity.
Small charities
PROSPECTIVE
74 Power to transfer all property, modify objects etc.
(1) This section applies to a charity if—
(a) its gross income in its last financial year did not exceed £5,000, and
(b) it does not hold any land on trusts which stipulate that the land is to be used for
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and it is neither an exempt charity nor a charitable company.
(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the charity trustees of a charity to
which this section applies may resolve for the purposes of this section—
(a) that all the property of the charity should be transferred to such other charity
as is specified in the resolution, being either a registered charity or a charity
which is not required to be registered;
(b) that all the property of the charity should be divided, in such manner as is
specified in the resolution, between such two or more other charities as are so
specified, being in each case either a registered charity or a charity which is not
required to be registered;
(c) that the trusts of the charity should be modified by replacing all or any of the
purposes of the charity with such other purposes, being in law charitable, as
are specified in the resolution;
(d) that any provision of the trusts of the charity—
(i) relating to any of the powers exercisable by the charity trustees in the
administration of the charity, or
(ii) regulating the procedure to be followed in any respect in connection
with its administration,
should be modified in such manner as is specified in the resolution.
(3) Any resolution passed under subsection (2) above must be passed by a majority of not
less than two-thirds of such charity trustees as vote on the resolution.
(4) The charity trustees of a charity to which this section applies (“the transferor charity”)
shall not have power to pass a resolution under subsection (2)(a) or (b) above unless
they are satisfied—
(a) that the existing purposes of the transferor charity have ceased to be conducive
to a suitable and effective application of the charity’s resources; and
(b) that the purposes of the charity or charities specified in the resolution are as
similar in character to the purposes of the transferor charity as is reasonably
practicable;
and before passing the resolution they must have received from the charity trustees of
the charity, or (as the case may be) of each of the charities, specified in the resolution
written confirmation that those trustees are willing to accept a transfer of property under
this section.
(5) The charity trustees of any such charity shall not have power to pass a resolution under
subsection (2)(c) above unless they are satisfied—
(a) that the existing purposes of the charity (or, as the case may be, such of them as
it is proposed to replace) have ceased to be conducive to a suitable and effective
application of the charity’s resources; and
(b) that the purposes specified in the resolution are as similar in character to those
existing purposes as is practical in the circumstances.
(6) Where charity trustees have passed a resolution under subsection (2) above, they shall—
(a) give public notice of the resolution in such manner as they think reasonable in
the circumstances; and
(b) send a copy of the resolution to the Commissioners, together with a statement
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(7) The Commissioners may, when considering the resolution, require the charity trustees
to provide additional information or explanation—
(a) as to the circumstances in and by reference to which they have determined to
act under this section, or
(b) relating to their compliance with this section in connection with the resolution;
and the Commissioners shall take into account any representations made to them by
persons appearing to them to be interested in the charity where those representations are
made within the period of six weeks beginning with the date when the Commissioners
receive a copy of the resolution by virtue of subsection (6)(b) above.
(8) Where the Commissioners have so received a copy of a resolution from any charity
trustees and it appears to them that the trustees have complied with this section in
connection with the resolution, the Commissioners shall, within the period of three
months beginning with the date when they receive the copy of the resolution, notify the
trustees in writing either—
(a) that the Commissioners concur with the resolution; or
(b) that they do not concur with it.
(9) Where the Commissioners so notify their concurrence with the resolution, then—
(a) if the resolution was passed under subsection (2)(a) or (b) above, the charity
trustees shall arrange for all the property of the transferor charity to be
transferred in accordance with the resolution and on terms that any property
so transferred—
(i) shall be held and applied by the charity to which it is transferred (“the
transferee charity”) for the purposes of that charity, but
(ii) shall, as property of the transferee charity, nevertheless be subject to
any restrictions on expenditure to which it is subject as property of the
transferor charity,
and those trustees shall arrange for it to be so transferred by such date as may
be specified in the notification; and
(b) if the resolution was passed under subsection (2)(c) or (d) above, the trusts
of the charity shall be deemed, as from such date as may be specified in
the notification, to have been modified in accordance with the terms of the
resolution.
(10) For the purpose of enabling any property to be transferred to a charity under this section,
the Commissioners shall have power, at the request of the charity trustees of that charity,
to make orders vesting any property of the transferor charity—
(a) in the charity trustees of the first-mentioned charity or in any trustee for that
charity, or
(b) in any other person nominated by those charity trustees to hold the property in
trust for that charity.
(11) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (1) above by substituting a
different sum for the sum for the time being specified there.
(12) In this section—
(a) “charitable company” means a charity which is a company or other body
corporate; and
(b) references to the transfer of property to a charity are references to its transfer—
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(ii) to any trustee for the charity, or
(iii) to a person nominated by the charity trustees to hold it in trust for the
charity,
as the charity trustees may determine.
75 Power to spend capital.
(1) This section applies to a charity if—
(a) it has a permanent endowment which does not consist of or comprise any land,
and
(b) its gross income in its last financial year did not exceed £1,000,
and it is neither an exempt charity nor a charitable company.
(2) Where the charity trustees of a charity to which this section applies are of the opinion
that the property of the charity is too small, in relation to its purposes, for any useful
purpose to be achieved by the expenditure of income alone, they may resolve for the
purposes of this section that the charity ought to be freed from the restrictions with
respect to expenditure of capital to which its permanent endowment is subject.
(3) Any resolution passed under subsection (2) above must be passed by a majority of not
less than two-thirds of such charity trustees as vote on the resolution.
(4) Before passing such a resolution the charity trustees must consider whether any
reasonable possibility exists of effecting a transfer or division of all the charity’s
property under section 74 above (disregarding any such transfer or division as would,
in their opinion, impose on the charity an unacceptable burden of costs).
(5) Where charity trustees have passed a resolution under subsection (2) above, they shall—
(a) give public notice of the resolution in such manner as they think reasonable in
the circumstances; and
(b) send a copy of the resolution to the Commissioners, together with a statement
of their reasons for passing it.
(6) The Commissioners may, when considering the resolution, require the charity trustees
to provide additional information or explanation—
(a) as to the circumstances in and by reference to which they have determined to
act under this section, or
(b) relating to their compliance with this section in connection with the resolution;
and the Commissioners shall take into account any representations made to them by
persons appearing to them to be interested in the charity where those representations are
made within the period of six weeks beginning with the date when the Commissioners
receive a copy of the resolution by virtue of subsection (5)(b) above.
(7) Where the Commissioners have so received a copy of a resolution from any charity
trustees and it appears to them that the trustees have complied with this section in
connection with the resolution, the Commissioners shall, within the period of three
months beginning with the date when they receive the copy of the resolution, notify the
trustees in writing either—
(a) that the Commissioners concur with the resolution; or
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(8) Where the Commissioners so notify their concurrence with the resolution, the charity
trustees shall have, as from such date as may be specified in the notification, power by
virtue of this section to expend any property of the charity without regard to any such
restrictions as are mentioned in subsection (2) above.
(9) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (1) above by substituting a
different sum for the sum for the time being specified there.
(10) In this section “charitable company” means a charity which is a company or other body
corporate.
Local charities
76 Local authority’s index of local charities.
(1) The council of a county [F45 or county borough ] or of a district or London borough and
the Common Council of the City of London may maintain an index of local charities
or of any class of local charities in the council’s area, and may publish information
contained in the index, or summaries or extracts taken from it.
(2) A council proposing to establish or maintaining under this section an index of local
charities or of any class of local charities shall, on request, be supplied by the
Commissioners free of charge with copies of such entries in the register of charities
as are relevant to the index or with particulars of any changes in the entries of which
copies have been supplied before; and the Commissioners may arrange that they will
without further request supply a council with particulars of any such changes.
(3) An index maintained under this section shall be open to public inspection at all
reasonable times.
(4) A council may employ any voluntary organisation as their agent for the purposes of this
section, on such terms and within such limits (if any) or in such cases as they may agree;
and for this purpose “voluntary organisation” means any body of which the activities
are carried on otherwise than for profit, not being a public or local authority.
(5) A joint board discharging any of a council’s functions shall have the same powers
under this section as the council as respects local charities in the council’s area which
are established for purposes similar or complementary to any services provided by the
board.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F45 Words in s. 76(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(1) (with ss. 54(5)(7) ,
55(5) , Sch. 17 para. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C12 Ss. 76-78 extended (with modifications) (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 25 , ss. 70 , 125(2) , Sch. 9 para. 15 (with
ss. 7(6) , 115 , 117 , Sch. 8 para. 7 )

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77 Reviews of local charities by local authority.
(1) The council of a county [F46 or county borough ]or of a district or London borough and
the Common Council of the City of London may, subject to the following provisions
of this section, initiate, and carry out in co-operation with the charity trustees, a review
of the working of any group of local charities with the same or similar purposes in the
council’s area, and may make to the Commissioners such report on the review and such
recommendations arising from it as the council after consultation with the trustees think
fit.
(2) A council having power to initiate reviews under this section may co-operate with
other persons in any review by them of the working of local charities in the council’s
area (with or without other charities), or may join with other persons in initiating and
carrying out such a review.
(3) No review initiated by a council under this section shall extend to any charity without
the consent of the charity trustees, nor to any ecclesiastical charity.
(4) No review initiated under this section by the council of a district shall extend to
the working in any county of a local charity established for purposes similar or
complementary to any services provided by county councils unless the review so
extends with the consent of the council of that county.
[F47 (4A) Subsection (4) above does not apply in relation to Wales. ] (5) Subsections (4) and (5) of section 76 above shall apply for the purposes of this section
as they apply for the purposes of that section.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F46 Words in s. 77(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(2) (with ss. 54(5)(7) ,
55(5) , Sch. 17 paras. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
F47 S. 77(4A) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(2) (with ss. 54(5)(7) , 55(5) ,
Sch. 17 paras. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C13 Ss. 76-78 extended (with modifications) (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 48 , ss. 70 , 125(2) , Sch. 9 para. 15 (with
ss. 7(6) , 115 , 117 , Sch. 8 para. 7 )
78 Co-operation between charities, and between charities and local authorities.
(1) Any local council and any joint board discharging any functions of such a council—
(a) may make, with any charity established for purposes similar or complementary
to services provided by the council or board, arrangements for co-ordinating
the activities of the council or board and those of the charity in the interests of
persons who may benefit from those services or from the charity; and
(b) shall be at liberty to disclose to any such charity in the interests of those
persons any information obtained in connection with the services provided by
the council or board, whether or not arrangements have been made with the
charity under this subsection.
In this subsection “local council” means [F48 , in relation to England, ] the council of a
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Council of the City of London and the Council of the Isles of Scilly [F50 and, in relation
to Wales, the council of a county, county borough or community ].
(2) Charity trustees shall, notwithstanding anything in the trusts of the charity, have power
by virtue of this subsection to do all or any of the following things, where it appears to
them likely to promote or make more effective the work of the charity, and may defray
the expense of so doing out of any income or money applicable as income of the charity,
that is to say—
(a) they may co-operate in any review undertaken under section 77 above or
otherwise of the working of charities or any class of charities;
(b) they may make arrangements with an authority acting under subsection (1)
above or with another charity for co-ordinating their activities and those of the
authority or of the other charity;
(c) they may publish information of other charities with a view to bringing them
to the notice of those for whose benefit they are intended.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F48 Words in s. 78(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(3)(a) (with ss. 54(5)(7) ,
55(5) , Sch. 17 paras. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
F49 Words in s. 78(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(3)(b) (with ss. 54(5)
(7) , 55(5) , Sch. 17 paras. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
F50 Words in s. 78(1) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(3)(c) (with ss. 54(5)(7) ,
55(5) , Sch. 17 paras. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C14 S. 78 extended (with modifications) (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 48 , ss. 70 , 125(2) , Sch. 9 para. 15 (with
Sch. 8 para. 7 )
79 Parochial charities.
(1) Where trustees hold any property for the purposes of a public recreation ground, or of
allotments (whether under inclosure Acts or otherwise), for the benefit of inhabitants
of a parish having a parish council, or for other charitable purposes connected with
such a parish, except for an ecclesiastical charity, they may with the approval of the
Commissioners and with the consent of the parish council transfer the property to the
parish council or to persons appointed by the parish council; and the council or their
appointees shall hold the property on the same trusts and subject to the same conditions
as the trustees did.
This subsection shall apply to property held for any public purposes as it applies to
property held for charitable purposes.
(2) Where the charity trustees of a parochial charity in a parish, not being an ecclesiastical
charity nor a charity founded within the preceding forty years, do not include persons
elected by the local government electors, ratepayers or inhabitants of the parish or
appointed by the parish council or parish meeting, the parish council or parish meeting
may appoint additional charity trustees, to such number as the Commissioners may
allow; and if there is a sole charity trustee not elected or appointed as aforesaid of
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Commissioners, be increased to three of whom one may be nominated by the person
holding the office of the sole trustee and one by the parish council or parish meeting.
(3) Where, under the trusts of a charity other than an ecclesiastical charity, the inhabitants
of a rural parish (whether in vestry or not) or a select vestry were formerly (in 1894)
entitled to appoint charity trustees for, or trustees or beneficiaries of, the charity, then—
(a) in a parish having a parish council, the appointment shall be made by the parish
council or, in the case of beneficiaries, by persons appointed by the parish
council; and
(b) in a parish not having a parish council, the appointment shall be made by the
parish meeting.
(4) Where overseers as such or, except in the case of an ecclesiastical charity,
churchwardens as such were formerly (in 1894) charity trustees of or trustees for a
parochial charity in a rural parish, either alone or jointly with other persons, then instead
of the former overseer or church warden trustees there shall be trustees (to a number
not greater than that of the former overseer or churchwarden trustees) appointed by the
parish council or, if there is no parish council, by the parish meeting.
(5) Where, outside Greater London (other than the outer London boroughs), overseers of
a parish as such were formerly (in 1927) charity trustees of or trustees for any charity,
either alone or jointly with other persons, then instead of the former overseer trustees
there shall be trustees (to a number not greater than that of the former overseer trustees)
appointed by the parish council or, if there is no parish council, by the parish meeting.
(6) In the case of an urban parish existing immediately before the passing of the M48 Local
Government Act 1972 which after 1st April 1974 is not comprised in a parish, the power
of appointment under subsection (5) above shall be exercisable by the district council.
(7) In the application of the foregoing provisions of this section to Wales—
(a) for references in subsections (1) and (2) to a parish or a parish council there shall
be substituted respectively references to a community or a community council;
(b) for references in subsections (3)(a) and (b) to a parish, a parish council
or a parish meeting there shall be substituted respectively references to a
community, a community council or the [F51 council of the county or (as the case
may be) county borough ];
(c) for references in subsections (4) and (5) to a parish council or a parish meeting
there shall be substituted respectively references to a community council or the
[F51 council of the county or (as the case may be) county borough ].
(8) Any appointment of a charity trustee or trustee for a charity which is made by virtue
of this section shall be for a term of four years, and a retiring trustee shall be eligible
for re-appointment but—
(a) on an appointment under subsection (2) above, where no previous appointments
have been made by virtue of that subsection or of the corresponding provision
of the M49 Local Government Act 1894 or the M50 Charities Act 1960, and more
than one trustee is appointed, half of those appointed (or as nearly as may be)
shall be appointed for a term of two years; and
(b) an appointment made to fill a casual vacancy shall be for the remainder of the
term of the previous appointment.
[F52 (9) This section shall not affect the trusteeship, control or management of any
[F53 foundation or voluntary school within the meaning of the School Standards and
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(10) The provisions of this section shall not extend to the Isles of Scilly, and shall have effect
subject to any order (including any future order) made under any enactment relating
to local government with respect to local government areas or the powers of local
authorities.
(11) In this section the expression “formerly (in 1894)” relates to the period immediately
before the passing of the Local Government Act 1894, and the expression “formerly (in
1927)” to the period immediately before 1st April 1927; and the word “former” shall
be construed accordingly.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F51 Words in s. 79(b)(c) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(4) (with ss. 54(5)
(7) , 55(5) , Sch. 17 paras. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
F52 S. 79(9) substituted (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56 , ss. 582(1) , 583(2) , Sch. 37 Pt. I para. 119 (with s. 1(4) ,
Sch. 39 )
F53 Words in s. 79(9) substituted (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31 , s. 140(1) , Sch. 30 para. 49 (with ss. 138(9) ,
144(6) ); S.I. 1999/2323 , art. 2(1) , Sch. 1
Marginal Citations
M48 1972 c. 70 .
M49 1894 c. 73 .
M50 1960 c. 58 .
Scottish charities
80 Supervision by Commissioners of certain Scottish charities.
(1) The following provisions of this Act, namely—
(a) sections 8 and 9,
(b) section 18 (except subsection (2)(ii)), and
(c) section 19,
shall have effect in relation to any recognised body which is managed or controlled
wholly or mainly in or from England or Wales as they have effect in relation to a charity.
(2) Where—
(a) a recognised body is managed or controlled wholly or mainly in or from
Scotland, but
(b) any person in England and Wales holds any property on behalf of the body or
of any person concerned in its management or control,
then, if the Commissioners are satisfied as to the matters mentioned in subsection (3)
below, they may make an order requiring the person holding the property not to part
with it without their approval.
(3) The matters referred to in subsection (2) above are—
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(b) that it is necessary or desirable to make an order under that subsection for the
purpose of protecting the property of the body or securing a proper application
of such property for the purposes of the body;
and the reference in that subsection to the Commissioners being satisfied as to those
matters is a reference to their being so satisfied on the basis of such information as may
be supplied to them by the Lord Advocate.
(4) Where—
(a) any person in England and Wales holds any property on behalf of a recognised
body or of any person concerned in the management or control of such a body,
and
(b) the Commissioners are satisfied (whether on the basis of such information as
may be supplied to them by the Lord Advocate or otherwise)—
(i) that there has been any misconduct or mismanagement in the
administration of the body, and
(ii) that it is necessary or desirable to make an order under this subsection
for the purpose of protecting the property of the body or securing a
proper application of such property for the purposes of the body,
the Commissioners may by order vest the property in such recognised body or charity as
is specified in the order in accordance with subsection (5) below, or require any persons
in whom the property is vested to transfer it to any such body or charity, or appoint any
person to transfer the property to any such body or charity.
(5) The Commissioners may specify in an order under subsection (4) above such other
recognised body or such charity as they consider appropriate, being a body or charity
whose purposes are, in the opinion of the Commissioners, as similar in character to
those of the body referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection as is reasonably
practicable; but the Commissioners shall not so specify any body or charity unless they
have received—
(a) from the persons concerned in the management or control of the body, or
(b) from the charity trustees of the charity,
as the case may be, written confirmation that they are willing to accept the property.
(6) In this section “recognised body” has the same meaning as in Part I of the M51 Law
Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (Scottish charities).
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C15 S. 80 : functions of the Lord Advocate transferred to the Secretary of State, and all property, rights
and liabilities to which the Lord Advocate is entitled or subject in connection with any such function
transferred to the Secretary of State for Scotland (19.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/678 , arts. 2 , 3, Sch. (with art.
7)
Marginal Citations
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Administrative provisions about charities
PROSPECTIVE
81 Manner of giving notice of charity meetings, etc.
(1) All notices which are required or authorised by the trusts of a charity to be given to a
charity trustee, member or subscriber may be sent by post, and, if sent by post, may
be addressed to any address given as his in the list of charity trustees, members or
subscribers for the time being in use at the office or principal office of the charity.
(2) Where any such notice required to be given as aforesaid is given by post, it shall be
deemed to have been given by the time at which the letter containing it would be
delivered in the ordinary course of post.
(3) No notice required to be given as aforesaid of any meeting or election need be given
to any charity trustee, member or subscriber, if in the list above mentioned he has no
address in the United Kingdom.
82 Manner of executing instruments.
(1) Charity trustees may, subject to the trusts of the charity, confer on any of their body
(not being less than two in number) a general authority, or an authority limited in such
manner as the trustees think fit, to execute in the names and on behalf of the trustees
assurances or other deeds or instruments for giving effect to transactions to which the
trustees are a party; and any deed or instrument executed in pursuance of an authority
so given shall be of the same effect as if executed by the whole body.
(2) An authority under subsection (1) above—
(a) shall suffice for any deed or instrument if it is given in writing or by resolution
of a meeting of the trustees, notwithstanding the want of any formality that
would be required in giving an authority apart from that subsection;
(b) may be given so as to make the powers conferred exercisable by any of the
trustees, or may be restricted to named persons or in any other way;
(c) subject to any such restriction, and until it is revoked, shall, notwithstanding
any change in the charity trustees, have effect as a continuing authority given
by the charity trustees from time to time of the charity and exercisable by such
trustees.
(3) In any authority under this section to execute a deed or instrument in the names and on
behalf of charity trustees there shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be implied
authority also to execute it for them in the name and on behalf of the official custodian
or of any other person, in any case in which the charity trustees could do so.
(4) Where a deed or instrument purports to be executed in pursuance of this section, then in
favour of a person who (then or afterwards) in good faith acquires for money or money’s
worth an interest in or charge on property or the benefit of any covenant or agreement
expressed to be entered into by the charity trustees, it shall be conclusively presumed
to have been duly executed by virtue of this section.
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83 Transfer and evidence of title to property vested in trustees.
(1) Where, under the trusts of a charity, trustees of property held for the purposes of the
charity may be appointed or discharged by resolution of a meeting of the charity trustees,
members or other persons, a memorandum declaring a trustee to have been so appointed
or discharged shall be sufficient evidence of that fact if the memorandum is signed either
at the meeting by the person presiding or in some other manner directed by the meeting
and is attested by two persons present at the meeting.
(2) A memorandum evidencing the appointment or discharge of a trustee under
subsection (1) above, if executed as a deed, shall have the like operation under section 40
of the M52 Trustee Act 1925 (which relates to vesting declarations as respects trust
property in deeds appointing or discharging trustees) as if the appointment or discharge
were effected by the deed.
(3) For the purposes of this section, where a document purports to have been signed and
attested as mentioned in subsection (1) above, then on proof (whether by evidence or
as a matter of presumption) of the signature the document shall be presumed to have
been so signed and attested, unless the contrary is shown.
(4) This section shall apply to a memorandum made at any time, except that subsection (2)
shall apply only to those made after the commencement of the M53 Charities Act 1960.
(5) This section shall apply in relation to any institution to which the M54 Literary and
Scientific Institutions Act 1854 applies as it applies in relation to a charity.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M52 1925 c. 19 .
M53 1960 c. 58 .
M54 1854 c. 112 .
PART X
SUPPLEMENTARY
84 Supply by Commissioners of copies of documents open to public inspection.
The Commissioners shall, at the request of any person, furnish him with copies of, or
extracts from, any document in their possession which is for the time being open to
inspection under Parts II to VI of this Act.
85 Fees and other amounts payable to Commissioners.
(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations require the payment to the Commissioners
of such fees as may be prescribed by the regulations in respect of—
(a) the discharge by the Commissioners of such functions under the enactments
relating to charities as may be so prescribed;
(b) the inspection of the register of charities or of other material kept by them under
those enactments, or the furnishing of copies of or extracts from documents so
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(2) Regulations under this section may—
(a) confer, or provide for the conferring of, exemptions from liability to pay a
prescribed fee;
(b) provide for the remission or refunding of a prescribed fee (in whole or in part)
in circumstances prescribed by the regulations.
(3) Any regulations under this section which require the payment of a fee in respect of
any matter for which no fee was previously payable shall not be made unless a draft
of the regulations has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of
Parliament.
(4) The Commissioners may impose charges of such amounts as they consider reasonable
in respect of the supply of any publications produced by them.
(5) Any fees and other payments received by the Commissioners by virtue of this section
shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
86 Regulations and orders.
(1) Any regulations or order of the Secretary of State under this Act—
(a) shall be made by statutory instrument; and
(b) (subject to subsection (2) below) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of
a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(2) Subsection (1)(b) above does not apply—
(a) to an order under section 17(2), [F54 70 ] or 99(2); [F55 or] [F56 (b) to any regulations under section 71; or ] (c) to any regulations to which section 85(3) applies.
(3) Any regulations of the Secretary of State or the Commissioners and any order of the
Secretary of State under this Act may make—
(a) different provision for different cases; and
(b) such supplemental, incidental, consequential or transitional provision or
savings as the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the Commissioners
consider appropriate.
(4) Before making any regulations under section 42, 44 or 45 above the Secretary of State
shall consult such persons or bodies of persons as he considers appropriate.
Annotations:
Extent Information
E2 S. 86 extends to England and Wales only except that so much of s. 86 as relates to ss. 70 and 71 extends
also to Scotland.
Amendments (Textual)
F54 Word in s. 86(2)(a) repealed (E.W.) (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 29 , s. 40(1)(3) , Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(2)(a) , Sch.
4 Pt. I (with s. 35 ); S.I. 2001/49 , art. 2
F55 Word in s. 86(2)(a) inserted (E.W.) (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 29 , s. 40(1) , Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(2)(b) (with s.
35); S.I. 2001/49 , art. 2
F56 S. 86(2)(b) repealed (E.W.) (1.2.2001) by 2000 c. 29 , s. 40(1)(3) , Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 2(3) , Sch. 4 Pt. I
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87 Enforcement of requirements by order of Commissioners.
(1) If a person fails to comply with any requirement imposed by or under this Act then
(subject to subsection (2) below) the Commissioners may by order give him such
directions as they consider appropriate for securing that the default is made good.
(2) Subsection (1) above does not apply to any such requirement if—
(a) a person who fails to comply with, or is persistently in default in relation to,
the requirement is liable to any criminal penalty; or
(b) the requirement is imposed—
(i) by an order of the Commissioners to which section 88 below applies, or
(ii) by a direction of the Commissioners to which that section applies by
virtue of section 90(2) below.
88 Enforcement of orders of Commissioners.
A person guilty of disobedience—
(a) to an order of the Commissioners under section 9(1), 44(2), 61, 73 or 80 above;
or
(b) to an order of the Commissioners under section 16 or 18 above requiring a
transfer of property or payment to be called for or made; or
(c) to an order of the Commissioners requiring a default under this Act to be made
good;
may on the application of the Commissioners to the High Court be dealt with as for
disobedience to an order of the High Court.
89 Other provisions as to orders of Commissioners.
(1) Any order made by the Commissioners under this Act may include such incidental or
supplementary provisions as the Commissioners think expedient for carrying into effect
the objects of the order, and where the Commissioners exercise any jurisdiction to make
such an order on an application or reference to them, they may insert any such provisions
in the order notwithstanding that the application or reference does not propose their
insertion.
(2) Where the Commissioners make an order under this Act, then (without prejudice to
the requirements of this Act where the order is subject to appeal) they may themselves
give such public notice as they think fit of the making or contents of the order, or may
require it to be given by any person on whose application the order is made or by any
charity affected by the order.
(3) The Commissioners at any time within twelve months after they have made an order
under any provision of this Act other than section 61 if they are satisfied that the order
was made by mistake or on misrepresentation or otherwise than in conformity with this
Act, may with or without any application or reference to them discharge the order in
whole or in part, and subject or not to any savings or other transitional provisions.
(4) Except for the purposes of subsection (3) above or of an appeal under this Act, an
order made by the Commissioners under this Act shall be deemed to have been duly
and formally made and not be called in question on the ground only of irregularity or
informality, but (subject to any further order) have effect according to its tenor.

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Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C16 S. 89(1)(2)(4) applied (1.8.1993) by 1992 c. 41 , s. 72(5) (as substituted (1.8.1993) by ss. 98(1), 99(1),
Sch. 6 para. 29(7) of this Act).
90 Directions of the Commissioners.
(1) Any direction given by the Commissioners under any provision contained in this Act—
(a) may be varied or revoked by a further direction given under that provision; and
(b) shall be given in writing.
(2) Sections 88 and 89(1), (2) and (4) above shall apply to any such directions as they apply
to an order of the Commissioners.
(3) In subsection (1) above the reference to the Commissioners includes, in relation to a
direction under subsection (3) of section 8 above, a reference to any person conducting
an inquiry under that section.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be read as applying to any directions contained in an order
made by the Commissioners under section 87(1) above.
91 Service of orders and directions.
(1) This section applies to any order or direction made or given by the Commissioners
under this Act.
(2) An order or direction to which this section applies may be served on a person (other
than a body corporate)—
(a) by delivering it to that person;
(b) by leaving it at his last known address in the United Kingdom; or
(c) by sending it by post to him at that address.
(3) An order or direction to which this section applies may be served on a body corporate
by delivering it or sending it by post—
(a) to the registered or principal office of the body in the United Kingdom, or
(b) if it has no such office in the United Kingdom, to any place in the United
Kingdom where it carries on business or conducts its activities (as the case may
be).
(4) Any such order or direction may also be served on a person (including a body corporate)
by sending it by post to that person at an address notified by that person to the
Commissioners for the purposes of this subsection.
(5) In this section any reference to the Commissioners includes, in relation to a direction
given under subsection (3) of section 8 above, a reference to any person conducting an
inquiry under that section.
92 Appeals from Commissioners.
(1) Provision shall be made by rules of court for regulating appeals to the High Court under
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(2) On such an appeal the Attorney General shall be entitled to appear and be heard, and
such other persons as the rules allow or as the court may direct.
93 Miscellaneous provisions as to evidence.
(1) Where, in any proceedings to recover or compel payment of any rentcharge or other
periodical payment claimed by or on behalf of a charity out of land or of the rents,
profits or other income of land, otherwise than as rent incident to a reversion, it is shown
that the rentcharge or other periodical payment has at any time been paid for twelve
consecutive years to or for the benefit of the charity, that shall be prima facie evidence
of the perpetual liability to it of the land or income, and no proof of its origin shall be
necessary.
(2) In any proceedings, the following documents, that is to say,—
(a) the printed copies of the reports of the Commissioners for enquiring concerning
charities, 1818 to 1837, who were appointed under the Act 58 Geo. 3. c. 91 and
subsequent Acts; and
(b) the printed copies of the reports which were made for various counties
and county boroughs to the Charity Commissioners by their assistant
commissioners and presented to the House of Commons as returns to orders
of various dates beginning with 8th December 1890, and ending with 9th
September 1909,
shall be admissible as evidence of the documents and facts stated in them.
(3) Evidence of any order, certificate or other document issued by the Commissioners may
be given by means of a copy retained by them, or taken from a copy so retained, and
certified to be a true copy by any officer of the Commissioners generally or specially
authorised by them to act for this purpose; and a document purporting to be such a
copy shall be received in evidence without proof of the official position, authority or
handwriting of the person certifying it.
94 Restriction on institution of proceedings for certain offences.
(1) No proceedings for an offence under this Act to which this section applies shall be
instituted except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
(2) This section applies to any offence under—
(a) section 5;
(b) section 11;
(c) section 18(14);
(d) section 49; or
(e) section 73(1).
95 Offences by bodies corporate.
Where any offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to
have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any
neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the
body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well
as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded
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In relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, “director”
means a member of the body corporate.
96 Construction of references to a “charity” or to particular classes of charity.
(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires—
“charity” means any institution, corporate or not, which is established for
charitable purposes and is subject to the control of the High Court in the exercise
of the court’s jurisdiction with respect to charities;
“ecclesiastical charity” has the same meaning as in the M55 Local Government
Act 1894;
“exempt charity” means (subject to section 24(8) above) a charity comprised
in Schedule 2 to this Act;
“local charity” means, in relation to any area, a charity established for
purposes which are by their nature or by the trusts of the charity directed wholly
or mainly to the benefit of that area or of part of it;
“parochial charity” means, in relation to any parish or (in Wales) community,
a charity the benefits of which are, or the separate distribution of the benefits
of which is, confined to inhabitants of the parish or community, or of a single
ancient ecclesiastical parish which included that parish or community or part
of it, or of an area consisting of that parish or community with not more than
four neighbouring parishes or communities.
(2) The expression “charity” is not in this Act applicable—
(a) to any ecclesiastical corporation (that is to say, any corporation in the Church of
England, whether sole or aggregate, which is established for spiritual purposes)
in respect of the corporate property of the corporation, except to a corporation
aggregate having some purposes which are not ecclesiastical in respect of its
corporate property held for those purposes; or
(b) to any Diocesan Board of Finance [F57 (or any subsidiary thereof) ] within the
meaning of the M56 Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976 for any diocese in
respect of the diocesan glebe land of that diocese within the meaning of that
Measure; or
(c) to any trust of property for purposes for which the property has been
consecrated.
(3) A charity shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have a permanent endowment
unless all property held for the purposes of the charity may be expended for those
purposes without distinction between capital and income, and in this Act “permanent
endowment” means, in relation to any charity, property held subject to a restriction on
its being expended for the purposes of the charity.
(4) References in this Act to a charity whose income from all sources does not in aggregate
amount to more than a specified amount shall be construed—
(a) by reference to the gross revenues of the charity, or
(b) if the Commissioners so determine, by reference to the amount which they
estimate to be the likely amount of those revenues,
but without (in either case) bringing into account anything for the yearly value of land
occupied by the charity apart from the pecuniary income (if any) received from that
land; and any question as to the application of any such reference to a charity shall be
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(5) The Commissioners may direct that for all or any of the purposes of this Act an
institution established for any special purposes of or in connection with a charity (being
charitable purposes) shall be treated as forming part of that charity or as forming a
distinct charity.
[F58 (6) The Commissioners may direct that for all or any of the purposes of this Act two or
more charities having the same charity trustees shall be treated as a single charity. ] Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F57 Words in s. 96(2)(b) inserted (1.1.2001) by 2000 Measure No. 1, s. 11; Instrument dated 28.7.2000 made
by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York
F58 S. 96(6) inserted (8.11.1995) by 1995 c. 48 , s. 1
Marginal Citations
M55 1894 c. 73 .
M56 1976 No. 4 .
97 General interpretation.
(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires—
“charitable purposes” means purposes which are exclusively charitable
according to the law of England and Wales;
“charity trustees” means the persons having the general control and
management of the administration of a charity;
“the Commissioners” means the Charity Commissioners for England and
Wales;
“company” means a company formed and registered under the M57 Companies Act 1985 or to which the provisions of that Act apply as they
apply to such a company;
“the court” means the High Court and, within the limits of its jurisdiction,
any other court in England and Wales having a jurisdiction in respect of
charities concurrent (within any limit of area or amount) with that of the High
Court, and includes any judge or officer of the court exercising the jurisdiction
of the court;
“financial year”—
(a) in relation to a charity which is a company, shall be construed in
accordance with section 223 of the Companies Act 1985; and
(b) in relation to any other charity, shall be construed in accordance with
regulations made by virtue of section 42(2) above;
but this definition is subject to the transitional provisions in section 99(4)
below and Part II of Schedule 8 to this Act;
“gross income”, in relation to charity, means its gross recorded income from
all sources including special trusts;
“independent examiner”, in relation to a charity, means such a person as is
mentioned in section 43(3)(a) above;
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“the official custodian” means the official custodian for charities;
“permanent endowment” shall be construed in accordance with section 96(3)
above;
“the register” means the register of charities kept under section 3 above and
“registered” shall be construed accordingly;
“special trust” means property which is held and administered by or on
behalf of a charity for any special purposes of the charity, and is so held and
administered on separate trusts relating only to that property but a special trust
shall not, by itself, constitute a charity for the purposes of Part VI of this Act;
“trusts” in relation to a charity, means the provisions establishing it
as a charity and regulating its purposes and administration, whether those
provisions take effect by way of trust or not, and in relation to other institutions
has a corresponding meaning.
(2) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, “document” includes
information recorded in any form, and, in relation to information recorded otherwise
than in legible form—
(a) any reference to its production shall be construed as a reference to the furnishing
of a copy of it in legible form; and
(b) any reference to the furnishing of a copy of, or extract from, it shall accordingly
be construed as a reference to the furnishing of a copy of, or extract from, it
in legible form.
(3) No vesting or transfer of any property in pursuance of any provision of Part IV or IX
of this Act shall operate as a breach of a covenant or condition against alienation or
give rise to a forfeiture.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M57 1985 c. 6 .
98 Consequential amendments and repeals.
(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 6 to this Act shall be amended as provided in
that Schedule.
(2) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 7 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent
specified in the third column of the Schedule.
99 Commencement and transitional provisions.
(1) Subject to subsection (2) below this Act shall come into force on 1st August 1993.
F59 (2) Part VI, section 69 and paragraph 21(3) of Schedule 6 shall not come into force until
such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint; and different days may be
appointed for different provisions or different purposes.
(3) Until the coming into force of all the provisions mentioned in subsection (2) above
the provisions mentioned in Part I of Schedule 8 to this Act shall continue in force
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(4) Part II of Schedule 8 to this Act shall have effect until the coming into force of the first
regulations made by virtue of section 42(2) above for determining the financial year of
a charity for the purposes of the provisions mentioned in that Part.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F59 S. 99(2) power wholly exercised (14.10.1995): different dates appointed for specified provisions by S.I.
1995/2695 , arts. 2 , 3 (with art. 4 )
100 Short title and extent.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Charities Act 1993.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) to (6) below, this Act extends only to England and Wales.
(3) Section 10 above and this section extend to the whole of the United Kingdom.
(4) Section 15(2) extends also to Northern Ireland.
(5) Sections 70 and 71 and so much of section 86 as relates to those sections extend also
to Scotland.
(6) The amendments in Schedule 6 and the repeals in Schedule 7 have the same extent as
the enactments to which they refer and section 98 above extends accordingly.

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SCHEDULE 1 Section 1.
CONSTITUTION ETC . OF C HARITY C OMMISSIONERS
1 (1) There shall be a Chief Charity Commissioner and two other commissioners.
(2) Two at least of the commissioners shall be persons who have a seven year general
qualification within the meaning of section 71 of the M58 Courts and Legal Services
Act 1990.
(3) The chief commissioner and the other commissioners shall be appointed by the
Secretary of State, and shall be deemed for all purposes to be employed in the civil
service of the Crown.
(4) There may be paid to each of the commissioners such salary and allowances as the
Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury determine.
(5) If at any time it appears to the Secretary of State that there should be more than three
commissioners, he may with the approval of the Treasury appoint not more than two
additional commissioners.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M58 1990 c. 41 .
2 (1) The chief commissioner may, with the approval of the Treasury as to number and
conditions of service, appoint such assistant commissioners and other officers and
such employees as he thinks necessary for the proper discharge of the functions of
the Commissioners and of the official custodian.
(2) There may be paid to officers and employees so appointed such salaries or
remuneration as the Treasury may determine.
3 (1) The Commissioners may use an official seal for the authentication of documents, and
their seal shall be officially and judicially noticed.
(2) The M59 Documentary Evidence Act 1868, as amended by the M60 Documentary
Evidence Act 1882, shall have effect as if in the Schedule to the Act of 1868 the
Commissioners were included in the first column and any commissioner or assistant
commissioner and any officer authorised to act on behalf of the Commissioners were
mentioned in the second column.
(3) The Commissioners shall have power to regulate their own procedure and, subject
to any such regulations and to any directions of the chief commissioner, any one
commissioner or any assistant commissioner may act for and in the name of the
Commissioners.
(4) Where the Commissioners act as a board, then—

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(a) if not more than four commissioners hold office for the time being, the
quorum shall be two commissioners (of whom at least one must be a person
having a qualification such as is mentioned in paragraph 1(2) above); and
(b) if five commissioners so hold office, the quorum shall be three
commissioners (of whom at least one must be a person having such a
qualification);
and in the case of an equality of votes the chief commissioner or in his absence the
commissioner presiding shall have a second or casting vote.
(5) The Commissioners shall have power to act notwithstanding any vacancy in their
number.
(6) It is hereby declared that the power of a commissioner or assistant commissioner to
act for and in the name of the Commissioners in accordance with sub-paragraph (3)
above may, in particular, be exercised in relation to functions of the Commissioners
under sections 8, 18, 19 and 63 of this Act, including functions under sections 8,18
and 19 as applied by section 80(1).
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M59 1868 c. 37 .
M60 1882 c. 9 .
4 Legal proceedings may be instituted by or against the Commissioners by the name of
the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales, and shall not abate or be affected
by any change in the persons who are the commissioners.
SCHEDULE 2 Sections 3 and 96.
EXEMPT C HARITIES
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C17 Sch. 2 applied (1.4.1994) by S.I. 1994/653 , reg. 42(1) , Sch. Pt. I
Sch. 2 applied (9.5.1994) by S.I. 1994/1084 , reg. 8(1) , Sch. 2 Pt. I
The following institutions, so far as they are charities, are exempt charities within the meaning
of this Act, that is to say—
(a) any institution which, if the M61 Charities Act 1960 had not been passed, would be
exempted from the powers and jurisdiction, under the Charitable Trusts Acts 1853 to
1939, of the Commissioners or Minister of Education (apart from any power of the
Commissioners or Minister to apply those Acts in whole or in part to charities otherwise
exempt) by the terms of any enactment not contained in those Acts other than section 9
of the M62 Places of Worship Registration Act 1855;
(b) the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Durham and Newcastle, the colleges
and halls in the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and Newcastle, Queen

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Mary and Westfield College in the University of London and the colleges of Winchester
and Eton;
(c) any university, university college, or institution connected with a university or
university college, which Her Majesty declares by Order in Council to be an exempt
charity for the purposes of this Act;
F60 (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F61 (da) theQualifications and Curriculum Authority; ] F62 (e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F63 (f) the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales; ] (g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F64 (h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(i) a successor company to a higher education corporation (within the meaning of
section 129(5) of the M63 Education Reform Act 1988) at a time when an institution
conducted by the company is for the time being designated under that section;
(j) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(k) the Board of Trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum;
(l) the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum;
(m) the Board of Trustees of the Armouries;
(n) the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew;
(o) the Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside;
(p) the trustees of the British Museum and the trustees of the Natural History Museum;
(q) the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery;
(r) the Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery ;
(s) the Board of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery;
(t) the Board of Trustees of the Wallace Collection;
(u) the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum;
(v) the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum;
(w) any institution which is administered by or on behalf of an institution included above
and is established for the general purposes of, or for any special purpose of or in
connection with, the last-mentioned institution;
(x) the Church Commissioners and any institution which is administered by them;
(y) any registered society within the meaning of the M64 Industrial and Provident Societies
Act 1965 and any registered society or branch within the meaning of the M65 Friendly
Societies Act 1974;
(z) the Board of Governors of the Museum of London;
(za) the British Library Board.
[F65 (zb) the National Lottery Charities Board. ] Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F60 Sch. 2 para. (d) repealed (1.9.1999) by 1998 c. 31 , s. 140(3) , Sch. 31 (with ss. 138(9) , 144(6) ); S.I.
1999/2323 , art. 2(1) , Sch. 1
F61 Sch. 2 para. (da) substituted (1.10.1997) by 1997 c. 44 , s. 57(1) , Sch. 7 para. 7(a) ; S.I. 1997/1468 , art.
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F62 Sch. 2 paras. (e)(g) repealed (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56 , ss. 582(2)(3) , 583(2) , Sch. 38 Pt. I , Sch. 39 (with
s. 1(4) , Sch. 39 )
F63 Sch. 2 para. (f) substituted (1.10.1997) by 1997 c. 44 , s. 57(1) , Sch. 7 para. 7(b) ; S.I. 1997/1468 , art.
2(3) , Sch. 1 Pt. II
F64 Sch. 2 paras. (h)(j) repealed (1.1.1999) by 1998 c. 30 , s. 44(2) , Sch. 4 (with s. 42(8) ); S.I. 1998/3237 ,
art. 2(2)
F65 Sch. 2 para. (zb) inserted (21.12.1993) by 1993 c. 39 , s. 37 , Sch. 5 para. 12 ; S.I. 1993/2632 , art. 3
Marginal Citations
M61 1960 c. 58 .
M62 1855 c. 81 .
M63 1988 c. 40 .
M64 1965 c. 12 .
M65 1974 c. 46 .
SCHEDULE 3 Section 13.
ENLARGEMENT OF A REAS OF LOCAL C HARITIES
Existing areaPermissible enlargement1. Greater LondonAny area comprising Greater London.2. Any area in Greater London and not in, or
partly in, the City of London.
(i) Any area in Greater London and not in, or
partly in, the City of London;
(ii) the area of Greater London exclusive of
the City of London;
(iii) any area comprising the area of Greater
London, exclusive of the City of London;
(iv) any area partly in Greater London and
partly in any adjacent parish or parishes (civil
or ecclesiastical), and not partly in the City of
London.
3. A districtAny area comprising the district[F66 3A.A Welsh county or county borough ] [F66 Any area comprising that county or
county borough ] 4. Any area in a district(i) Any area in the district;
(ii) the district;
(iii) any area comprising the district;
(iv) any area partly in the district and partly
in any adjacent district [F67 or in any adjacent
Welsh county or county borough ] [F68 4A . Any area in a Welsh county or
county borough ] [F68 (i)Any area in the county or county
borough ; ] [F68 (ii)the county or county borough ; ] [F68 (iii)any area comprising the county or
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[F68 (iv)any area partly in the county or county
borough and partly in any adjacent Welsh
county or county borough or in any adjacent
district . ] 5. A parish (civil or ecclesiastical), or two
or more parishes, or an area in a parish, or
partly in each of two or more parishes.
Any area not extending beyond the parish or
parishes comprising or adjacent to the area in
column 1.
6. In Wales, a community, or two or more
communities, or an area in a community, or
partly in each of two or more communities.
Any area not extending beyond the
community or communities comprising or
adjacent to the area in column 1.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F66 Sch. 3 para. 3A inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(5) (with ss. 54(5)(7) , 55(5) ,
Sch. 17 paras. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
F67 Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(iv) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(6) (with ss. 54(5)
(7) , 55(5) , Sch. 17 paras. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
F68 Sch. 3 para. 4A inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19 , s. 66(6) , Sch. 16 para. 101(6) (with ss. 54(5)(7) , 55(5) ,
Sch. 17 paras. 22(1) , 23(2) ); S.I. 1996/396 , art. 4 , Sch. 2
SCHEDULE 4 Section 15.
COURT ’S JURISDICTION OVER C ERTAIN C HARITIES G OVERNED BY OR UNDER STATUTE
1 The court may by virtue of section 15(3) of this Act exercise its jurisdiction with respect
to charities—
(a) in relation to charities established or regulated by any provision of theM66 Seamen’s Fund Winding-up Act 1851 which is repealed by the M67 Charities
Act 1960;
(b) in relation to charities established or regulated by schemes under the Endowed
Schools Act 1869 to 1948, or section 75 of the M68 Elementary Education Act
1870 or by schemes given effect under section 2 of the M69 Education Act 1973
[F69 or section 554 of the Education Act 1996 ];
F70 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(d) in relation to fuel allotments, that is to say, land which, by any enactment
relating to inclosure or any instrument having effect under such an enactment,
is vested in trustees upon trust that the land or the rents and profits of the land
shall be used for the purpose of providing poor persons with fuel;
(e) in relation to charities established or regulated by any provision of theM70 Municipal Corporations Act 1883 which is repealed by the Charities Act
1960 or by any scheme having effect under any such provision;
(f) in relation to charities regulated by schemes under the M71 London Government
Act 1899;
(g) in relation to charities established or regulated by orders or regulations under
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(h) in relation to charities regulated by section 79 of this Act, or by any such order
as is mentioned in that section.
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F69 Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(b) added (1.11.1996) by 1996 c. 56 , ss. 582(1) , 583(2) , Sch. 37 Pt. I para. 121
(with s. 1(4) , Sch. 39 )
F70 Sch. 4 para. 1(c) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50 , s. 1(1) , Sch. 1 Pt. III
Marginal Citations
M66 1851 c. 102 .
M67 1960 c. 58 .
M68 1870 c. 75 .
M69 1973 c. 16 .
M70 1883 c. 18 .
M71 1899 c. 14 .
M72 1935 c. 11 .
2 Notwithstanding anything in section 19 of the M73 Commons Act 1876 a scheme for the
administration of a fuel allotment (within the meaning of the foregoing paragraph) may
provide—
(a) for the sale or letting of the allotment or any part thereof, for the discharge of
the land sold or let from any restrictions as to the use thereof imposed by or
under any enactment relating to inclosure and for the application of the sums
payable to the trustees of the allotment in respect of the sale or lease; or
(b) for the exchange of the allotment or any part thereof for other land, for the
discharge as aforesaid of the land given in exchange by the said trustees, and
for the application of any money payable to the said trustees for equality of
exchange; or
(c) for the use of the allotment or any part thereof for any purposes specified in
the scheme.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M73 1876 c. 56 .
SCHEDULE 5 Section 36(2).
MEANING OF “CONNECTED PERSON ” FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION 36(2)
1 In section 36(2) of this Act “connected person”, in relation to a charity, means—
(a) a charity trustee or trustee for the charity;
(b) a person who is the donor of any land to the charity (whether the gift was made
on or after the establishment of the charity);
(c) a child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother or sister of any such trustee
or donor;
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(e) the spouse of any person falling within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) above;
(f) an institution which is controlled—
(i) by any person falling within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) above, or
(ii) by two or more such persons taken together; or
(g) a body corporate in which—
(i) any connected person falling within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (f)
above has a substantial interest, or
(ii) two or more such persons, taken together, have a substantial interest.
2 (1) In paragraph 1(c) above “child” includes a stepchild and an illegitimate child.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph 1(e) above a person living with another as that person’s
husband or wife shall be treated as that person’s spouse.
3 For the purposes of paragraph 1(f) above a person controls an institution if he is able to
secure that the affairs of the institution are conducted in accordance with his wishes.
4 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 1(g) above any such connected person as is there
mentioned has a substantial interest in a body corporate if the person or institution
in question—
(a) is interested in shares comprised in the equity share capital of that body of a
nominal value of more than one-fifth of that share capital, or
(b) is entitled to exercise, or control the exercise of, more than one-fifth of the
voting power at any general meeting of that body.
(2) The rules set out in Part I of Schedule 13 to the M74 Companies Act 1985 (rules for
interpretation of certain provisions of that Act) shall apply for the purposes of sub-
paragraph (1) above as they apply for the purposes of section 346(4) of that Act
(“connected persons” etc).
(3) In this paragraph “equity share capital” and “share” have the same meaning as in
that Act.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M74 1985 c. 6 .
SCHEDULE 6 Section 98(1).
CONSEQUENTIAL A MENDMENTS
The Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (c.81)
1 (1) Section 9 of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 shall be amended as
follows.
(2) For “subsection (4) of section four of the Charities Act 1960” there shall be
substituted “ subsection (5) of section 3 of the Charities Act 1993” .
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“(2) Section 89 of the said Act of 1993 (provisions as to orders under that Act)
shall apply to any order under paragraph (b) above as it applies to orders
under that Act.”
The Open Spaces Act 1906 (c.25)
2 At the end of section 4 of the Open Spaces Act 1906 there shall be added—
“(4) Section 89 of the Charities Act 1993 (provisions as to orders under that Act) shall
apply to any order of the Charity Commissioners under this section as it applies
to orders made by them under that Act.”
The New Parishes Measure 1943 (No. 1)
3 (1) The New Parishes Measure 1943 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1)(b) of section 14 for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be
substituted “ the Charities Act 1993” .
(3) At the end of that section there shall be added—
“(4) Section 89 of the Charities Act 1993 (provisions as to orders under that Act)
shall apply to any order under section (1)(b) above as it applies to orders
under that Act.”
(4) In section 31 for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted “ the Charities
Act 1993” .
The Clergy Pensions Measure 1961 (No. 3)
4 In section 33 of the Clergy Pensions Measure 1961 for “section 32 of the Charities Act
1992” and “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted respectively “ section 36
of the Charities Act 1993” and “ that Act” .
The Finance Act 1963 (c.25)
F71 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F71 Sch. 6 para. 5 repealed (27.7.1997 with effect in relation to instruments executed on or after 6.2.2000) by
1999 c. 16 , s. 139 , Sch. 20 Pt. V(5) Note 1
The Cathedrals Measure 1963 (No. 2)
6 (1) The Cathedrals Measure 1963 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In section 20(2)(iii) for “section 32 of the Charities Act 1992” there shall be
substituted “ section 36 of the Charities Act 1993” .
(3) In section 51 for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted “ the Charities
Act 1993” .

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The Incumbents and Churchwardens (Trusts) Measure 1964 (No.2)
7 In section 1 of the Incumbents and Churchwardens (Trusts) Measure 1964 for
“subsection (3) of section forty-five of the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted
“ section 96(3) of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (c.88)
8 In section 23(4) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for “section 32 of the Charities Act
1992” there shall be substituted “ section 36 of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1968 (c.xxxix)
9 In section 43 of the Greater London Council(General Powers) Act 1968, in the
definition of “night cafeg”, for “section 4 of the Charities Act 1960” and “subsection (4)
thereof” there shall be substituted respectively “ section 3 of the Charities Act 1993”
and “ subsection (5) thereof” .
The Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969 (c.22)
10 (1) The Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969 shall be amended
as follows.
(2) In subsection (6) of section 4 for “section 18 of the Charities Act 1960” there shall
be substituted “ section 16 of the Charities Act 1993” .
(3) In subsection (7) of that section for “subsection (4) of section 18 of that Act” there
shall be substituted “ subsection (4) of section 16 of that Act” .
(4) In subsection (8) of that section for “section 18 of the Charities Act 1960” and (where
next occurring) “section 18” there shall be substituted respectively “ section 16 of the
Charities Act 1993” and “ section 16” and for “section 21” there shall be substituted
“ section 20” .
(5) In subsection (13) of that section for “sections 45 and 46 of the Charities Act 1960”
there shall be substituted “ sections 96 and 97 of the Charities Act 1993” .
(6) In section 7(2) for “the Charities Act 1960” and “section 23” there shall be substituted
respectively “ the Charities Act 1993” and “ section 26” .
The Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969 (c.38)
11 (1) The Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In section 2(4) for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted “ the Charities
Act 1993” .
(3) In subsection (1) of section 8 for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted
“ the Charities Act 1993” .
(4) In subsection (2) of that section for “section 45(2) of the Charities Act 1960” there
shall be substituted “ section 96(2) of the Charities Act 1993” .
(5) In subsection (3) of that section for “Section 32 of the Charities Act 1992” there shall
be substituted “ Section 36 of the Charities Act 1993” .

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The Local Government Act 1972 (c.70)
12 (1) The Local Government Act 1972 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In sections 11(3)(c) and 29(3)(c) for “section 37 of the Charities Act 1960” there
shall be substituted “ section 79 of the Charities Act 1993” .
(3) In sections 123(6) and 127(4) for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted
“ the Charities Act 1993” .
(4) In section 131(3) for “section 32 of the Charities Act 1992” and “section 32(9)(a)
of that Act” there shall be substituted respectively “ section 36 of the Charities Act
1993” and “ section 36(9)(a) of that Act” .
The Fire Precautions (Loans) Act 1973 (c.11)
13 In section 1(7) of the Fire Precautions (Loans) Act 1973 for “Section 34 of the Charities
Act 1992” there shall be substituted “ Section 38 of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Theatres Trust Act 1976 (c.27)
14 In section 2(2)(d) of the Theatres Trust Act 1976 for “sections 32 and 34 of the Charities
Act 1992” there shall be substituted “ sections 36 and 38 of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30)
15 In Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978, in the definition of “Charity
Commissioners” for “section 1 of the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted “
section 1 of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Reserve Forces Act 1980 (c.9)
F72 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F72 Sch. 6 para. 16 repealed (1.4.1997) by 1996 c. 14 , s. 131(2) , Sch. 11 ; (with s.. 72(5)); S.I. 1997/305 , art.
2(1)
The Disused Burial Grounds (Amendment) Act 1981 (c.18)
17 In section 6 of the Disused Burial Grounds (Amendment) Act 1981 for “section 13(5)
of the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted “ section 13(5) of the Charities
Act 1993” .
The Pastoral Measure 1983 (No. 1)
18 (1) The Pastoral Measure 1983 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In section 55(1) for “the Charities Act 1960” and “section 45(2)(b)” there shall be
substituted “ the Charities Act 1993” and “ section 96(2)(c)” .

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(3) In section 63(3) for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted “ the Charities
Act 1993” .
(4) In section 87(1) for “section 45 of the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted
“ section 96 of the Charities Act 1993” .
(5) In paragraphs 11(6) and 16(1)(e) of Schedule 3 for “section 18 of the Charities Act
1960” there shall be substituted “ section 16 of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Rates Act 1984 (c.33)
19 In section 3(9) of the Rates Act 1984 for “section 4 of the Charities Act 1960” there
shall be substituted “ section 3 of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Companies Act 1985 (c.6)
20 (1) The Companies Act 1985 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In sections 35(4) and 35A(6) for “section 30B(1) of the Charities Act 1960” there
shall be substituted “ section 65(1) of the Charities Act 1993” .
(3) In section 209(1)(c) and paragraph 11(b) of Schedule 13 after “the Charities Act
1960” there shall be inserted “ or section 24 or 25 of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Housing Associations Act 1985 (c.69)
21 (1) The Housing Associations Act 1985 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In section 10(1) for “sections 32 and 34 of the Charities Act 1992” there shall be
substituted “ sections 36 and 38 of the Charities Act 1993” .
[F73 (3) In section 26(2) for the words from “section 8” onwards there shall be substituted
“sections 41 to 45 of the Charities Act 1993 (charity accounts)”. ] (4) In section 35(2)(c) for “section 32 of the Charities Act 1992” there shall be
substituted “ section 36 of the Charities Act 1993” .
(5) In section 38—
(a) in paragraph (a) for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted “ the
Charities Act 1993” ;
F74 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F73 Sch. 6 para. 21(3) repealed (E.W.) (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 52 , s. 227 , Sch. 19 Pt. I ; S.I. 1996/2402 , art. 3(a)
F74 Sch. 6 para. 21(5)(b) repealed (1.10.1996) by S.I. 1996/2325 , art. 4(1)-(3) , Sch. 1 Pt. I
Commencement Information
I3 Sch. 6 para. 21 wholly in force at 1.3.1996; Sch. 6 para. 21(1)(2)(4)(5) in force at 1.8.1993, see s. 99(2) ;
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The Financial Services Act 1986 (c.60)
22 In section 45(1)(j) of the Financial Services Act 1986 after “the Charities Act 1960”
there shall be inserted “ , section 24 or 25 of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Coal Industry Act 1987 (c.3)
23 (1) In section 5 of the Coal Industry Act 1987 for subsection (8) there shall be substituted
—
“(8) Sections 16(3), (9), (11) to (14), 17(1) to (5) and (7) and 20 of the Charities
Act 1993 shall apply in relation to the powers of the Charity Commissioners
and the making of schemes under this section as they apply in relation to
their powers and the making of schemes under that Act and sections 89, 91
and 92 of that Act shall apply to orders and decisions under this section as
they apply to orders and decisions under that Act.”
(2) In subsection (8A) of that section for “section 29” (in both places) there shall be
substituted “ section 17” .
The Reverter of Sites Act 1987 (c.15)
24 In section 4(4) of the Reverter of Sites Act 1987 for “sections 40, 40A and 42 of the
Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted “ sections 89, 91 and 92 of the Charities
Act 1993” .
The Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c.1)
25 In Schedule 20 to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988—
(a) in paragraph 3 after “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be inserted “ ,
section 24 of the Charities Act 1993” ;
(b) in paragraph 3A after “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be inserted “ or
section 25 of the Charities Act 1993” .
The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c.41)
26 In Schedule 11 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, in the reference to a Charity
Commissioner, for “under the First Schedule to the Charities Act 1960” there shall be
substituted “ as provided in Schedule 1 to the Charities Act 1993” .
The London Local Authorities Act 1990 (c.vii)
27 In section 4 of the London Local Authorities Act 1990, in the definition of “night cafeg”,
for “section 4 of the Charities Act 1960” and “subsection (4) thereof” there shall be
substituted respectively “ section 3 of the Charities Act 1993” and “ subsection (5)
thereof” .
The London Local Authorities Act 1991 (c.xiii)
28 In section 4 of the London Local Authorities Act 1991, in the definition of
“establishment for special treatment”, for “section 4 of the Charities Act 1960” and
“subsection (4) of that section” there shall be substituted respectively “ section 3 of the
Charities Act 1993” and “ subsection (5) of that section” .

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The Charities Act 1992 (c.41)
29 (1) The Charities Act 1992 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In section 29(2)(b) after “Act” there shall be inserted “ or section 18 of the Charities
Act 1993” .
(3) In section 30(1)(b) after “Act” there shall be inserted “ or section 22(1) of the
Charities Act 1993” .
(4) In section 30(3)(a) after “Act” there shall be inserted “ or section 18 of the Charities
Act 1993” .
(5) In section 58(1), in the definition of “charity” for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall
be substituted “ the Charities Act 1993” and in the definition of “company” for the
words after “section” there shall be substituted “ 97 of the Charities Act 1993” .
(6) In section 63(2) for “section 4 of the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted
“ section 3 of the Charities Act 1993” .
(7) In section 72 for subsection (5) there shall be substituted—
“(5) Section 89(1), (2) and (4) of the Charities Act 1993 (provisions as to orders
made by the Commissioners) shall apply to an order made by them under
this section as it applies to an order made by them under that Act.
(6) In this section “charity” and “charitable purposes” have the same meaning
as in that Act.”
(8) In section 74 after subsection (3) there shall be inserted—
“(3A) Any person who knowingly or recklessly provides the Commissioners with
information which is false or misleading in a material particular shall be
guilty of an offence if the information is provided in circumstances in which
he intends, or could reasonably be expected to know, that it would be used
by them for the purpose of discharging their functions under section 72.
(3B) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (3A) shall be liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory
maximum;
(b) on conviction or indictment, to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.”
Other amendments
30 In the following provisions for “the Charities Act 1960” there shall be substituted “ the
Charities Act 1993”
The M75 National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 section 30(5).
The M76 Consumer Credit Act 1974 section 189(1).
The M77 Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976 section 5(3)(f).
The M78 Rent Act 1977 section 15(2)(b).
The M79 National Health Service Act 1977 section 96(2).
The M80 Dioceses Measure 1978 section 19(4).
The M81 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 section 49(3).

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The M82 Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1984 section 10(2)(n).
The M83 Local Government Act 1985 section 90(4).
The M84 Housing Act 1985 sections 525 and 622.
The M85 Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 section 60(1).
The M86 Education Reform Act 1988 sections 128(5) and 192(11).
The M87 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 Schedule 6 paragraph 7.
The M88 Housing Act 1988 Schedule 2 Part I Ground 6.
The M89 University of Wales College of Cardiff Act 1988 section 9.
The M90 Imperial College Act 1988 section 10.
F75 . . .
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F75 Words in Sch. 6 para. 30 repealed (17.12.1996) by 1996 c. 53 , s. 147 , Sch. 3 Pt. I ; S.I. 1996/2842 , art. 3
Marginal Citations
M75 1973 c. 32
M76 1974 c. 39
M77 1976 c. 80
M78 1977 c. 42
M79 1977 c. 49
M80 1978 No. 1
M81 1979 c. 46
M82 1984 c. xxvii
M83 1985 c. 51
M84 1985 c. 68
M85 1987 c. 31
M86 1988 c. 40
M87 1988 c. 48
M88 1988 c. 50
M89 1988 c. xxiii
M90 1988 c. xxiv
SCHEDULE 7 Section 98(2).
REPEALS
ChapterShort titleExtent of repeal35 & 36 Vic. c.24.The Charitable Trustees
Incorporation Act 1872.
The whole Act so far as
unrepealed.
10 & 11 Geo.5. c.16.The Imperial War Museum
Act 1920.
Section 5.24 &25 Geo.5. c.43.The National Maritime
Museum Act 1934.
Section 7.

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8 & 9 Eliz.2 c.58.The Charities Act 1960The whole Act so far as
unrepealed except—
section 28(9)
section 35(6)
section 38(3) to (5)
section 39(2)
sections 48 and 49
Schedule 6.
1963 c.33.The London Government Act
1963.
Section 81(9)(b) and (c).1963 c.xi.The Universities of Durham
and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Act 1963.
Section 10.1965 c.17.The Museum of London Act
1965.
Section 11.1972 c.54.The British Library Act 1972.Section 4(2).1972 c.70.The Local Government Act
1972.
Section 210(9).1973 c.16.The Education Act 1973.In section 2(7) the words
from “but” onwards.
In Schedule 1, paragraph 1(1)
and (3).
1976 No.4.The Endowments and Glebe
Measure 1976.
Section 44.1983 c.47.The National Heritage Act
1983.
In Schedule 5, paragraph 4.1985 c.9.The Companies
Consolidation (Consequential
Provisions) Act 1985.
In Schedule 2 the entry
relating to the Charities Act
1960.
1985 c.20.The Charities Act 1985.Section 1.1986 c.60.The Financial Services Act
1986.
In Schedule 16, paragraph 1.1988 c.40.The Education Reform Act
1988.
In Schedule 12, paragraphs 9,
10, 63 and 64.
1989 c.40.The Companies Act 1989.Section 111.1989 c.xiii.The Queen Mary and
Westfield College Act 1989.
Section 10.1990 c.41.The Courts and Legal
Services Act 1990.
In Schedule 10, paragraph 14.1992 c. 13.The Further and Higher
Education Act 1992.
In Schedule 8, paragraph 69.1992 c.41.The Charities Act 1992.The whole of Part I except—
section 1(1) and (4)
sections 29 and 30

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section 36
sections 49 and 50 Section 75(b). Section 76(1)(a). In section 77, subsections
(2)(a), (b) and (c) and in
subsection (4) the figures 20,
22 and 23.
Section 79(4) and (5). Schedules 1 to 4. In Schedule 6, paragraph
13(2).
In Schedule 7, the entries
relating to section 8 of the
Charities Act 1960 and (so
far as not in force at the date
specified in section 99(1) of
this Act) the Charities Act
1985.
1992 c.44.The Museums and Galleries
Act 1992.
In Schedule 8, paragraphs 4
and 10.
In Schedule 9, the entry
relating to the Charities Act
1960.
SCHEDULE 8 Section 99(3), (4).
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
PART I
PROVISIONS A PPLYING PENDING C OMING INTO FORCE OF PART VI ETC .
1 In the M91 Charities Act 1960—
section 8
section 32
Part V so far as relevant to those sections.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M91 1960 c. 58
2 In the M92 Charities Act 1985

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section 1
sections 6 and 7 so far as relevant to section 1.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M92 1985 c. 20
PART II
PROVISIONS A PPLYING PENDING C OMING INTO FORCE OF “F INANCIAL Y EAR ” R EGULATIONS
Section 5
In section 5(1) of this Act “financial year”—
(a) in relation to a charity which is a company, shall be construed in accordance with
section 223 of the M93 Companies Act 1985;
(b) in relation to any other charity, means any period in respect of which an income
and expenditure account is required to be prepared whether under section 32 of theM94 Charities Act 1960 or by or under the authority of any other Act, whether that period
is a year or not.
Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M93 1985 c. 6
M94 1960 c. 58
Sections 74 and 75
In sections 74(1)(a) and 75(1)(b) of this Act “financial year” means any period in respect of
which an income and expenditure account is required to be prepared whether under section 32
of the Charities Act 1960 or by or under the authority of any other Act, whether that period is
a year or not.
TABLE OF DERIVATIONS
Note: The following abbreviations are used in this Table—
1872 The Charitable Trustees
Incorporation Act 1872 (c.24)
1960 The Charities Act 1960 (c.58)1992 The Charities Act 1992 (c.41)

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Section of 1993 ActDerivation11960 s.1; 1992 Sch.3, para.1.21960 s.3.31960 ss.4, 43(1), 45(6); 1992 s.2, Sch.141960 ss.5, 43(1).51992 s.3.61992 s.4.71992 s.5.81960 s.6; 1992 s.6.91960 s.7; 1992 s.7.101992 s.52.111992 s.54.121992 s.53.131960 s.13.141960 s.14; 1992 s.15.151960 s.15; Northern Ireland (Temporary
Provisions) Act 1972 (c.22) s.1(3); Northern
Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36) Sch.5,
para.1; Northern Ireland Act 1974 (c.28)
Sch.1, para.1(7).
161960 s.18; Local Government Act 1972
(c.70) s.179(1)(4); 1992 s.13, Sch.3, para.6.
171960 s.19; 1992 Sch.3, para.7.181960 s.20; 1992 s.8, Sch.1.191960 ss.20A, 43(1); 1992 s.9.201960 s.21; Local Government Act 1972
(c.70) s.179(1)(4); 1992 Sch.3, para.8.
211960 s.16; 1992 Sch.3, para.4.221960 s.17; 1992 Sch.3, para.5.231992 s.31.241960 s.22.251960 s.22A; 1992 s.16.261960 s.23.271960 s.23A; 1992 s.17.281992 s.18; Banking Coordination (Second
Council Directive) Regulations 1992
(S.I.1992/3218) Sch.10, para.33.
291960 s.24.

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301960 ss.25, 43(1).311960 s.26.321960 s.26A; 1992 s.28.331960 s.28(1) to (8); 1992 Sch.3, para.10.341960 s.28A; 1992 s.11.351960 s.21A; 1992 s.14.361992 s.32.371992 s.33.381992 s.34.391992 s.35.401992 s.37(1) to (4).411992 s.19.421992 s.20.431992 s.21.441992 s.22.451992 s.23.461960 s.32(1)(2); 1992 s.24, Sch.3, para.13.471992 s.25.481992 s.26.491992 s.27.501872 s.1; 1992 Sch.4, para.1.511872 s.2; 1992 Sch.4, para.2.521872 s.3; 1992 Sch.4, para.3.531872 s.4; 1992 Sch.4, para.4.541872 s.5; 1992 Sch.4, para.5.551872 s.6.561872 s.6A; 1992 Sch.4, para.6.571872 s.7; 1992 Sch.4, para.7.581872 s.8; 1992 Sch.4, para.8.591872 s.10.601872 s.12; 1992 Sch.4, para.9 (part).611872 s.12A; 1992 Sch.4, para.9 (part).621872 s.14; 1992 Sch.4, para.10.631960 s.30; Companies Act 1989 (c.40)
s.111(1); 1992 s.10.

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641960 s.30A; Companies Act 1989 (c.40) s.
111(1); 1992 s.40.
651960 s.30B; Companies Act 1989 (c.40)
s.111(1).
661960 s.30BA; 1992 s.41.671960 s.30BB; 1992 s.42.681960 s.30C; Companies Act 1989 (c.40)
s.111(1); 1992 Sch.3, para.11.
691960 s.8; 1992 Sch.3, para.2; Companies
Act 1989 (Eligibility for Appointment
as Company Auditor) (Consequential
Amendments) Regulations 1991 (S.I.
1991/1997).
701992 s.38.711992 s.39.721992 s.45.731992 s.46.741992 s.43.751992 s.44.761960 s.10; London Government Act 1963
(c.33) s.81(9)(b); Local Government Act
1972 (c.70) s.210(9)(a).
771960 s.11; London Government Act 1963
(c.33) s.81(9)(b); Local Government Act
1972 (c.70) s.210(9)(b).
781960 s.12; Local Government Act 1972
(c.70) ss.179(1)(4), 210(9)(c).
791960 s.37; London Government Act 1963
(c.33) s.4(4); Local Government Act 1972
(c.70) ss.179(1)(4), 210(9)(e); Education
Reform Act 1988 (c.40) Sch.12, para.9.
801992 s.12.811960 s.33.821960 s.34; 1992 Sch.3, para.14.831960 s.35.841960 s.9; 1992 s.25(2), Sch.3, para.3.851992 s.51.861960 ss.4(8B), 18(14), 43(2A)(3); Education
Act 1973 (c.16) Sch.1 para.1(1); 1992
ss.2(7), 13(6), 77, Sch.3, para.17.
871992 s.56(1)(2)(6).

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881960 s.41; 1992 s.56(3)(6), Sch.3, para.16.891960 s.40; 1992 s.56(4)(5)(6).901992 s.57.911960 s.40A; 1992 s.76, Sch.3, para.15.921960 s.42.931960 s.36.941992 s.55.951992 s.75.961960 s.45(1) to (5); Local Government Act
1972 (c.70) s.179(1)(4); 1992 s.1(2), Sch.3,
para.18; Endowments and Glebe Measure
1976 (No.4) s.44.
971960 ss.16(5) (part), 46; Companies Act
1989 (c.40) s.111(2); 1992 s.1(1) to (4).
98991001960 s.49(2)(c); 1992 s.79(3)(4)(5).Sch.11960 Sch.1; Courts and Legal Services Act
1990 (c.41) Sch.10, para.14; 1992 s.12(1),
Sch.3, paras.20, 21.
Sch.2para.(a)1960 Sch.2, para.(a).para.(b)1960 Sch.2, para.(b); Universities of Durham
and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Act 1963 (c.xi)
s.18; Queen Mary and Westfield College Act
1989 (c.xiii) s.10.
para.(c)1960 Sch.2, para.(c).paras.(d) to (i)Education Reform Act 1988 (c.40) Sch.12,
paras.10, 63, 64.
para.(j)Further and Higher Education Act 1992
(c.13) Sch.8, para.69.
paras.(k) to (n)1960 Sch.2, paras.(ca) to (cd); National
Heritage Act 1983 (c.47) Sch.5 para.4.
para.(o)Local Government Reorganisation
(Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 1990. (S.I.
1990/1765) art.3(1)(b).
para.(p)1960 Sch.2, para.(d); Museums and Galleries
Act 1992 (c.44) Sch.8, para.4.
paras.(q) to (t)1960 Sch.2, paras.(ce) to (ch); Museums and
Galleries Act 1992 (c.44) Sch.8, para.10.

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para.(u)Imperial War Museum Act 1920 (c.16) s.5.para.(v)National Maritime Museum Act 1934 (c.43)
s.7.
para.(w)1960 Sch.2 para.(e); Education Reform Act
1988 (c.40) Sch.12 paras.10, 63, 64; Further
and Higher Education Act 1992 (c.13) Sch.8,
para.69.
para.(x)(y)1960 Sch.2 paras.(f)(g).para.(z)1960 Sch.2, para.(h); Museum of London Act
1965 (c.17) s.11.
para.(za)1960 Sch.2 para.(i); British Library Act 1972
(c.54) s.4(2).
Sch.31960 Sch.3; London Government Act 1963
(c.33) s.81(9)(c); Local Government Act
1972 (c.70) ss.179(1)(4), 210(9)(f).
Sch.41960 Sch.4; Education Act 1973 (c.16)
s.2(7).
Sch.51992 Sch.2.Sch.61960 s.40(5) (as to paras.1(3), 2, 3(3)) and
1992 ss.54(1)(b)(3), 56(4)(5) (as to para.29
(7)(8)).
Sch.7Sch.8

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Changes and effects yet to be applied to the whole Act, associated Parts and
Chapters:
– S.S.I. 2005/644 commences (2005 asp 10)
– 2010 No. 2 commences (2010 gsm 1)
– S.I. 2003/1725 commences (2002 c. 9)
– S.I. 2005/3056 commences (2003 c. 17)
– S.I. 2005/3175 commences (2004 c. 33)
– S.I. 2006/3201 commences (2006 c. 23)
– S.I. 2007/2194 commences (2006 c. 46. This SI is amended by SI 2007/2607, SI
2007/3495, SI 2008/674, SI 2008/2860 and SI 2009/1632)
– S.I. 2007/309 commences (2006 c. 50)
– S.I. 2007/3286 commences (2006 c. 50)
– S.I. 2008/1653 commences (2007 c. 15)
– S.I. 2008/172 commences (2007 c. 28. This SI is amended by SI 2008/337)
– S.I. 2008/2860 commences (2006 c. 46. This SI is amended by SI 2009/1802, SI
2009/1941 and SI 2009/2476)
– S.I. 2008/3267 commences (2006 c. 50. This SI is amended by SI 2009/2648)
– S.I. 2008/751 commences (2006 c. 50)
– S.I. 2008/945 commences (2006 c. 50. This SI is amended by SI 2009/841)
– S.I. 2009/1604 commences (2005 c. 4)
– S.I. 2009/1632 amendment to earlier commencing SI 2007/2194 Sch. 3 para. 23A (as
inserted by SI 2007/3495 Sch. 5 para. 2(5))
– S.I. 2009/2648 commences (2006 c. 50)
– S.I. 2010/1151 commences (2009 c. 22. This SI is amended by SI 2010/1702)
– S.I. 2010/1937 commences (2010 c. 32)
– S.I. 2010/1942 amendment to earlier commencing SI 2008/3267
– S.I. 2010/3037 amendment to earlier commencing SI 2010/1937
– S.I. 2010/503 commences (2006 c. 50)
– Act added by 2006 c. 50
– Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2008/3267 art. 12(3) by S.I.
2009/2648
– Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2008/3267 art. 17 by S.I. 2009/2648
– Act applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2008/3267
– Act continued by S.I. 2010/503
– Act excluded by S.I. 2008/3267
– Act excluded by S.I. 2010/503
– Act excluded by SI 2008/3267 art. 13(5) (as inserted) by S.I. 2009/2648
– Act excluded by SI 2008/3267 art. 21(1) (as inserted) by S.I. 2009/2648
– Act excluded by SI 2008/3267 art. 21(2) (as inserted) by S.I. 2009/2648
– Act excluded by SI 2008/3267 art. 24 (as inserted) by S.I. 2009/2648
– Act excluded by SI 2008/3267 art. 26 (as inserted) by S.I. 2009/2648
– Act inserted by 2006 c. 46
– Act inserted by 2006 c. 50
– Act inserted by 2010 c. 32
– Act inserted by 2010 c. 4
– Act inserted by S.I. 2005/1074
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– Act modified by 2010 No. 1
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– Act modified by SI 2008/3267 art. 22 (as inserted) by S.I. 2009/2648
– Act modified by SI 2008/3267 art. 23 (as inserted) by S.I. 2009/2648
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– Act substituted by S.I. 2007/2194
– Act substituted by S.I. 2007/789
– Act substituted by S.I. 2008/527
– Act substituted by S.I. 2009/1834
– Act substituted by S.I. 2009/1941
– Act substituted by S.I. 2010/500
– Act substituted for s. 10 by 2006 c. 50
– Act substituted for s. 20 by 2006 c. 50
– Act substituted for s. 3 by 2006 c. 50
– Act substituted for s. 38(2)(3) by 2006 c. 50
– Act substituted for s. 43(3A)(a)-(c) by S.I. 2008/527
– Act substituted for s. 46(3) by 2006 c. 50
– Act substituted for s. 63(3)(4) by S.I. 2009/1941
– Act substituted for s. 64(2) by 2006 c. 50
– Act substituted for s. 64(3)(4) by S.I. 2009/1941
– Act substituted for s. 66 by 2006 c. 46
– Act substituted for s. 68 by S.I. 2008/948
– Act substituted for s. 69(1) by S.I. 2008/948
– Act substituted for s. 74 by 2006 c. 50
– Act substituted for s. 75 by 2006 c. 50
– Act substituted for s. 80(1)(c) by 2006 c. 50
– Act substituted for s. 93(3) by 2006 c. 50
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– Act transfer of functions by S.I. 2006/2951