{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-254",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-254.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/25",
  "legislation_title": "Charities Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011",
  "path": "section/254",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "254",
  "heading": "Liability of charity trustees not affected by incorporation",
  "text": "After a certificate of incorporation has been granted under this Part, all charity trustees of the charity are, despite their incorporation—\n(a) chargeable for such property as comes into their hands, and\n(b) answerable and accountable for their own acts, receipts, neglects, and defaults, and for the due administration of the charity and its property,\nin the same manner and to the same extent as if no such incorporation had been effected.",
  "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/254",
    "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."
  }
}