{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2006/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2006/section-54.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/50",
  "legislation_title": "Charities Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2006",
  "path": "section/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Power to call for information and documents",
  "text": "(1) The Commission may request—\n(a) any applicant for a public collections certificate, or\n(b) any person to whom such a certificate has been issued,\nto provide it with any information in his possession, or document in his custody or under this control, which is relevant to the exercise of any of its functions under this Chapter.\n(2) Nothing in this section affects the power conferred on the Commission by section 52 of the Charities Act 2011.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 54(2) substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 118 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/50/section/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:27.947599+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."
  }
}