{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-311",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011/section-311.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2011/25",
  "legislation_title": "Charities Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-2011",
  "path": "section/311",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "311",
  "heading": "Effect of registering charity merger on gifts to transferor",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a relevant charity merger is registered in the register of charity mergers.\n(2) Subsection (2A) applies to a gift, other than an excluded gift, if—\n(a) the gift would have taken effect as a gift to the transferor if the transferor had been in existence, and\n(b) the date on which the gift would have taken effect is a date on or after the date of the registration of the merger.\n(2A) The gift takes effect as a gift to the transferee.\n(3) A gift is an excluded gift if—\n(a) the transferor is a charity within section 306(2), and\n(b) the gift is intended to be held subject to the trusts on which the whole or part of the charity's permanent endowment is held.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 311(2)(2A) substituted for s. 311(2) (7.3.2024) by Charities Act 2022 (c. 6), ss. 33(4), 41(4) (with s. 33(5)); S.I. 2024/265, reg. 3, Sch. 1 para. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/25/section/311",
    "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."
  }
}