{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-188",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-188.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/25",
  "legislation_title": "Charities Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011",
  "path": "section/188",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "188",
  "heading": "Meaning of “connected person”",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of sections 185 and 186, the following persons are connected with a charity trustee or trustee for a charity—\n(a) a child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother or sister of the trustee;\n(b) the spouse or civil partner of the trustee or of any person falling within paragraph (a);\n(c) a person carrying on business in partnership with the trustee or with any person falling within paragraph (a) or (b);\n(d) an institution which is controlled—\n(i) by the trustee or by any person falling within paragraph (a), (b) or (c), or\n(ii) by two or more persons falling within sub-paragraph (i), when taken together.\n(e) a body corporate in which—\n(i) the trustee or any connected person falling within any of paragraphs (a) to (c) has a substantial interest, or\n(ii) two or more persons falling within sub-paragraph (i), when taken together, have a substantial interest.\n(2) Sections 350 to 352 (meaning of child, spouse and civil partner, controlled institution and substantial interest) apply for the purposes of subsection (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/25/section/188",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:07.149597+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."
  }
}