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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2006-commencement-no7-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-and-savings-order-2010/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/503",
  "legislation_title": "The Charities Act 2006 (Commencement No.7, Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2006-commencement-no7-transitional-and-transitory-provisions-and-savings-order-2010",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Inquiries under section 8 of the 1993 Act in relation to relevant charities",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the Commission must not instigate any inquiry under section 8 of the 1993 Act (“section 8 inquiry”) on or after the appointed day—\n(a) in relation to one or more relevant charities and in respect of any period beginning before that day; or\n(b) which covers any period beginning before the appointed day and would extend to one or more relevant charities.\n(2) The Commission may, if it considers it appropriate to do so, instigate a section 8 inquiry on or after the appointed day into a section 11 charity in respect of a relevant matter which it becomes aware of on or after the appointed day.\n(3) The Commission may, if it considers it appropriate to do so, instigate a section 8 inquiry on or after the appointed day into a specified exempt charity in respect of a relevant matter if—\n(a) subject to sub-paragraph (4), a request is made by the principal regulator of the charity under this sub-paragraph; and\n(b) the Commission was not aware before the appointed day of the matter to which the request relates.\n(4) A principal regulator may only make a request under sub-paragraph (3) in respect of a relevant matter which it becomes aware of on or after the appointed day.\n(5) For the purpose of this paragraph “relevant matter” means a matter arising in relation to a charity—\n(a) before the appointed day; but\n(b) during the current financial year of that charity.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/503/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
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  },
  "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."
}