{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-1992/section-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-1992/section-79.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/41",
  "legislation_title": "Charities Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-1992",
  "path": "section/79",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Charities Act 1992.\n(2) This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint; and different days may be so appointed for different provisions or for different purposes.\n(3) Subject to subsections (4) to (6) below, this Act extends only to England and Wales.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) The amendments in Schedule 6, and (subject to subsection (7)) the repeals in Schedule 7, have the same extent as the enactments to which they refer, and section 78 extends accordingly.\n(7) The repeal in Schedule 7 of the Police, Factories, &c. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1916 does not extend to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 79(2) substituted (9.11.2016) by The Transfer of Functions (Elections, Referendums, Third Sector and Information) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/997), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 8(3)(h) (with art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 79(4)(5) repealed (1.8.1993) by 1993 c. 10, s. 98(2), Sch.7"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1916 c.31."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 79 in force at 1.9.1992 by S.I 1992/1900 art 2(1) Sch 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 79(2) power partly exercised (28.7.1992): different dates appointed for specified provisions see S.I. 1992/1900 art. 2.S. 79(2) power partly exercised (27.11.1994): different dates appointed for specified provisions see S.I. 1994/3023, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/50",
      "affecting_title": "Charities Act 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/50",
      "affecting_title": "Charities Act 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/41/section/79",
    "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."
  }
}