{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charitable-incorporated-organisations-general-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charitable-incorporated-organisations-general-regulations-2012/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation: bodies corporate and associated bodies corporate",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations—\n(a) “body corporate” includes a body incorporated outside the United Kingdom but does not include—\n(i) a corporation sole; or\n(ii) a partnership that, whether or not a legal person, is not regarded as a body corporate under the law by which it is governed;\n(b) bodies corporate are associated if—\n(i) one is a subsidiary of the other; or\n(ii) both are subsidiaries of the same body corporate,\nand for these purposes “subsidiary” has the meaning given by section 1159 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Companies Act 2006 with the substitution, in relation to CIOs, of references to charity trustees for references to directors.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 2.1.2013, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.46. There are amendments to the Act not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3012/regulation/3",
    "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."
}