{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charitable-institutions-fund-raising-regulations-1994/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3024",
  "legislation_title": "The Charitable Institutions (Fund-Raising) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charitable-institutions-fund-raising-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Charitable Institutions (Fund-Raising) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st March 1995.\n(2) In these Regulations, the expression—\n“bank” means—\n(a) the Bank of England; or\n(b) an institution which is authorised by the Bank of England to operate a deposit-taking business under Part I of the Banking Act 1987;\n“building society” means a building society which is authorised by the Building Societies Commission under section 9 of the Building Societies Act 1986 to raise money from its members.\n(3) In these Regulations, any reference, in relation to an agreement made for the purposes of section 59 of the Charities Act 1992, to a charitable institution, commercial participator or professional fund-raiser, shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as a reference to any charitable institution, commercial participator or professional fund-raiser, respectively, which is or who is a party to the agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. 22, as amended by the Banking Co-ordination (Second Council Directive) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3218)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1986 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "These expressions have, by virtue of section 11 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) the meanings assigned to them in section 58 of the Charities Act 1992 as amended by section 25 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3649",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3649",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1129",
      "affecting_title": "The Bank of England Act 1998 (Consequential Amendments of Subordinate Legislation) Order 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3024/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:12.271760+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."
}