{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charitable-incorporated-organisations-general-regulations-2012/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charitable-incorporated-organisations-general-regulations-2012/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3012",
  "legislation_title": "The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charitable-incorporated-organisations-general-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation: general",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2011 Act” means the Charities Act 2011;\n“application for registration” means an application to be constituted and registered under section 207 of the 2011 Act;\n“association CIO” means a CIO which is not a foundation CIO;\n“enactment” has the meaning given by section 245(4) of the 2011 Act;\n“foundation CIO” means a CIO whose constitution provides that the same persons are to be its members and its charity trustees;\n“provision for entrenchment” has the meaning given by regulation 15;\n“service address” means, in relation to a person, an address at which—\n(a) the service of documents can be effected by physical delivery; and\n(b) the delivery of documents is capable of being recorded by the obtaining of an acknowledgment of delivery.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 2.1.2013, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 204 of the 2011 Act provides that for the purposes of that Act “CIO” means charitable incorporated organisation."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3012/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:36.365695+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}