{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-249",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-249.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/25",
  "legislation_title": "Charities Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011",
  "path": "section/249",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "249",
  "heading": "Meaning of “connected person”",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of sections 226(2)(c), 237(5)(c) and 242(3)(c).\n(2) The following persons are connected with a charity trustee or member of a CIO—\n(a) a child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother or sister of the trustee or member;\n(b) the spouse or civil partner of the trustee or member or of any person falling within paragraph (a);\n(c) a person carrying on business in partnership with the trustee or member or with any person falling within paragraph (a) or (b);\n(d) an institution which is controlled—\n(i) by the trustee or member 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 member 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(3) Sections 350 to 352 (meaning of child, spouse, civil partner, controlled institution and substantial interest) apply for the purposes of subsection (2).",
  "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/249",
    "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."
  }
}