Charities Act 1993 : Chapter 10.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
[1993]
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Charities Act 1993 : Chapter 10. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (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. (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 the information to be available for public inspection in legible form at all reasonable times.