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Charities Act 2022

2022 c. 6 · Enacted 24 February 2022 · Extends to England and Wales

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An Act to amend the Charities Act 2011 and the Universities and College Estates Act 1925; and for connected purposes. [24th February 2022]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Contents

  1. Part 1: Purposes, powers and governing documents
  2. Charitable companies
  3. 1Alteration of charitable company’s purposes
  4. Charitable incorporated organisations
  5. 2Amendments to constitution of CIOs
  6. Unincorporated charities
  7. 3Powers of unincorporated charities
  8. Charities established etc by Royal charter or Act
  9. 4Power to amend Royal charter
  10. 5Orders under section 73 of the Charities Act 2011: parliamentary procedure
  11. Cy-près and schemes
  12. 6Cy-près powers
  13. 7Proceeds of fund-raising: power of charity trustees to apply cy-près
  14. 8Power of the court and the Commission to make schemes
  15. Permanent endowment
  16. 9Definition of “permanent endowment”
  17. 10Amendment of powers to release restrictions on spending capital
  18. 11Taking effect of resolution under section 282 of the Charities Act 2011
  19. 12Power to borrow from permanent endowment
  20. 13Total return investment
  21. Special trusts
  22. 14Special trusts
  23. Ex gratia payments etc
  24. 15Small ex gratia payments
  25. 16Power of Commission etc to authorise ex gratia payments etc
  26. Part 2: Charity land
  27. Dispositions and mortgages
  28. 17Scope of Part 7 of the Charities Act 2011
  29. 18Exceptions to restrictions on dispositions or mortgages of charity land
  30. 19Advertising and report requirements for disposition of charity land
  31. 20Advice relating to the disposition of charity land
  32. 21Advice etc from charity trustees, officers and employees
  33. 22Residential tenancies granted to employees
  34. 23Information to be included in certain instruments
  35. Universities and College Estates Act 1925
  36. 24Amendments of the Universities and College Estates Act 1925
  37. Part 3: Charity names
  38. 25Working names etc
  39. 26Power to delay registration of unsuitably named charity
  40. 27Power to delay entry of unsuitable name in register
  41. 28Power to direct change of name of exempt charity
  42. Part 4: Charity trustees
  43. 29Powers relating to appointments of trustees
  44. 30Remuneration of charity trustees etc providing goods or services to charity
  45. 31Remuneration etc of charity trustees etc
  46. 32Trustee of charitable trust: status as trust corporation
  47. Part 5: Charity mergers
  48. Gifts to merged charity
  49. 33Gifts to merged charity
  50. Vesting declarations
  51. 34Vesting declarations: exclusions
  52. 35Vesting permanent endowment following a merger
  53. Part 6: Legal proceedings
  54. 36Costs incurred in relation to Tribunal proceedings etc
  55. Part 7: General
  56. 37Public notice as regards Commission orders etc
  57. 38“Connected person”: illegitimate children
  58. 39“Connected person”: power to amend
  59. 40Minor and consequential provision
  60. 41Extent, commencement and short title
  61. Schedule 1: Amendments of the Universities and College Estates Act 1925: consequential amendments
  62. 1Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1926 (c. 11)
  63. 2Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 (c. 36)
  64. 3Landlord and Tenant (War Damage) Act 1939 (c. 72)
  65. 4Universities and Colleges (Trusts) Act 1943 (c. 9)
  66. 5Coast Protection Act 1949 (c. 74)
  67. 6Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (c. 56)
  68. 7Universities and College Estates Act 1964 (c. 51)
  69. 8Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10)
  70. 9Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (c. 88)
  71. 10Mines and Quarries (Tips) Act 1969 (c. 10)
  72. 11Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40)
  73. 12Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 55)
  74. 13Universities and College Estates Act 1925 (Amendment) Regulations 1978 (S.I. 1978/443)
  75. 14Highways Act 1980 (c. 66)
  76. 15Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5)
  77. 16Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8)
  78. 17Solicitors’ Recognised Bodies Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2684)
  79. 18Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28)
  80. 19Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 (c. 8)
  81. 20Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (c. 53)
  82. 21Cathedrals Measure 1999 (No. 1)
  83. 22Trustee Act 2000 (c. 29)
  84. 23Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4)
  85. 24Cathedrals Measure 2021 (No. 2)
  86. Schedule 2: Minor and consequential amendments
  87. Part 1: Amendments relating to Part 1
  88. 1Paragraph 1
  89. 2Amendment relating to section 2 of this Act
  90. 3Amendments relating to section 3 of this Act
  91. 4Amendments relating to section 3 of this Act
  92. 5Amendments relating to section 3 of this Act
  93. 6Amendments relating to section 3 of this Act
  94. 7Amendments relating to section 3 of this Act
  95. 8Amendments relating to section 3 of this Act
  96. 9Amendments relating to section 3 of this Act
  97. 10Amendments relating to section 3 of this Act
  98. 11Amendments relating to section 5 of this Act
  99. 12Amendments relating to section 5 of this Act
  100. 13Amendments relating to section 6 of this Act
  101. 14Amendments relating to section 6 of this Act
  102. 15Amendments relating to section 6 of this Act
  103. 16Amendments relating to sections 10 and 11 of this Act
  104. 17Amendments relating to sections 10 and 11 of this Act
  105. 18Amendments relating to sections 10 and 11 of this Act
  106. 19Amendments relating to sections 10 and 11 of this Act
  107. 20Amendment relating to sections 10 and 12 of this Act
  108. 21Amendments relating to section 12 of this Act
  109. 22Amendments relating to section 12 of this Act
  110. 23Amendment relating to section 13 of this Act
  111. 24Amendments relating to section 14 of this Act
  112. 25Amendments relating to section 14 of this Act
  113. 26Amendments relating to section 16 of this Act
  114. 27Amendments relating to section 16 of this Act
  115. Part 2: Amendments relating to Part 2
  116. 28Amendment relating to section 22 of this Act
  117. 29Amendment relating to section 23 of this Act
  118. Part 3: Amendments relating to Part 3
  119. 30Paragraph 30
  120. 31Amendments relating to section 25 of this Act
  121. 32Amendments relating to section 25 of this Act
  122. 33Amendments relating to section 25 of this Act
  123. 34Amendments relating to section 25 of this Act
  124. 35Amendments relating to section 25 of this Act
  125. 36Amendments relating to section 25 of this Act
  126. 37Amendments relating to section 25 of this Act
  127. Part 4: Amendments relating to Part 4
  128. 38Paragraph 38
  129. 39Amendments relating to section 30 of this Act
  130. 40Amendments relating to section 30 of this Act
  131. 41Amendments relating to section 30 of this Act
  132. 42Amendment relating to section 31 of this Act
  133. Part 5: Other minor amendments
  134. 43Paragraph 43
  135. 44Paragraph 44
  136. 45Paragraph 45
  137. 46Paragraph 46