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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-2008-act-commencement-no-4-order-northern-ireland-2013/schedule",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/145",
  "legislation_title": "The Charities (2008 Act) (Commencement No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-2008-act-commencement-no-4-order-northern-ireland-2013",
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  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Provisions brought into operation on 24th June 2013",
  "text": "Provision of the Act\nSubject matter\nSection 16\nRegister of charities\nSection 17\nDuties of trustees in connection with registration\nSection 18\nEffect of, and claims and objections to, registration\nSection 19\nStatus of registered charity to appear on official publications, etc.\nSection 20 in so far as not already in operation\nPower of Commission to require charity’s name to be changed\nSection 21 in so far as not already in operation\nEffect of direction under section 20 where charity is a company\nSection 26\nOccasions for applying property cy-près\nSection 27\nApplication cy-près of gifts of donors unknown or disclaiming\nSection 28\nApplication cy-près of gifts made in response to certain solicitations\nSection 29\nCy-près schemes\nSection 30\nCharities governed by charter\nSection 91(1)(a), (2) (in so far as it relates to paragraph (a) of subsection (1)), (3), (4) and (6)(a)\nPower to relieve trustees, auditors, etc. from liability for breach of trust or duty\nSection 96\nAlteration of objects\nSection 98\nConsent of Commission required for approval etc by members of charitable companies\nSection 99\nConsent of Commission required for certain acts of charitable company\nSection 100\nRequirement to disclose charitable status\nSection 101\nCivil consequences of failure to make required disclosure\nSection 102\nCriminal consequences of failure to make required disclosure\nSection 123\nPower to transfer all property of unincorporated charity\nSection 124\nResolution not to take effect or to take effect at later date\nSection 125\nTransfer where charity has permanent endowment\nSection 126\nPower to replace purposes of unincorporated charity\nSection 127\nPower to modify powers or procedures of unincorporated charity\nSection 128\nPower of unincorporated charities to spend capital: general\nSection 129\nPower of larger unincorporated charities to spend capital given for particular purpose\nSection 130\nPower to spend capital subject to special trusts\nSection 156\nFalse statements relating to institutions which are not registered charities\nSection 159(1) and (6) (in so far as it relates to section 156)\nInterpretation of Chapter 2\nSection 161 (except subsection (11))\nRegister of charity mergers\nSection 162\nRegister of charity mergers: supplementary\nSection 163\nPre-merger vesting declarations\nSection 164\nEffect of registering charity merger on gifts to transferor\nSection 165\nApplication of Act in relation to designated religious charities\nSection 166\nDesignation, etc. of religious charities\nSection 171\nSupply by Commission of copies of documents open to public inspection\nSection 178(2)(a)\nRestriction on institution of proceedings for certain offences\nSchedule 8, paragraphs 8, 10, 11, 12(b) and 13(1) and (2) and section 183 in so far as it relates to those paragraphs\nMinor and consequential amendments\nIn Schedule 9 the repeal of—\nRepeals\nthe Charities (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 in so far as it relates to Articles 3 to 5, 9 and 9B to 9BB;\nthe Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 in so far as it relates to sections 1, 5, 13 and 22 to 24\nand section 184 in so far as it relates to those repeals",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 20(7) was repealed by Schedule 2 to the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 (c. 3 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 21 was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 27 was amended by paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 96 was amended by paragraph 19 of Schedule 1 to the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 125 was amended by paragraph 22 of Schedule 1 to the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 171 was amended by paragraph 6(1)(d) of Schedule 1 to the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Article 9 was amended by paragraph 92(3)(a) and (b) of Schedule 1 to S.I. 2009/1941 and Articles 9B to 9BB were substituted for Article 9B by paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to S.I. 2008/948"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Section 24(1) was amended by Article 6(3) of the Charities (Northern Ireland) Order 1987"
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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