{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011-commencement-no-2-order-2013/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011-commencement-no-2-order-2013/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1775",
  "legislation_title": "The Charities Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011-commencement-no-2-order-2013",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Inquiries under section 46 of the Act",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the Commission must not institute any inquiry under section 46 on or after 1st September 2013—\n(a) in relation to a specified exempt charity and in respect of any period beginning before that day; or\n(b) which covers any period beginning before that day and would extend to a specified exempt charity.\n(2) The Commission may, if—\n(a) a request is made by the principal regulator of a specified exempt charity; and\n(b) it considers it appropriate to do so,\ninstitute an inquiry under section 46 of the Act on or after 1st September 2013 into that charity in respect of a relevant matter.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph a matter is a relevant matter if—\n(a) it initially arose before 1st September 2013 but during the current financial year of the charity; and\n(b) the Commission was not aware of it before that day.\n(4) In this paragraph—\n“current financial year” means, in relation to a charity, a financial year—\n(a) which began before 1st September 2013; but\n(b) ends on or after that day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1775/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:37.651629+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}