{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-215",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-215.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/25",
  "legislation_title": "Charities Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011",
  "path": "section/215",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "215",
  "heading": "Offence of holding out that a body is a CIO",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person (in whatever way) to hold any body out as being a CIO when it is not.\n(2) It is a defence where a person is charged with an offence under subsection (1) to prove that the person believed on reasonable grounds that the body was a CIO.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "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/215",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:03:04.063676+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."
  }
}