{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-1992/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-1992/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/41",
  "legislation_title": "Charities Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-1992",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "False statements relating to institutions which are not registered charities.",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a person solicits money or other property for the benefit of an institution in association with a representation that the institution is a registered charity, and\n(b) the institution is not such a charity,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale.\n(1A) In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (1), it shall be a defence for the accused to prove that he believed on reasonable grounds that the institution was a registered charity.\n(2) In this section “registered charity” means a charity which is for the time being registered in the register of charities kept under section 29 of the Charities Act 2011.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 63(1)(A) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40, ss. 26(2), 82(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(2) substituted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 40, ss. 26(3), 82(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(2) substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 66 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Pt. II (ss. 58-64) wholly in force at 1.3.1995; Pt. II not in force at Royal Assent see s. 79(2); Pt. II in force for certain purposes at 28.11.1994 and wholly in force at 1.3.1995 by S.I. 1999/3023, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/41/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:43.590166+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}