{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-16A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-northern-ireland-2008/section-16A.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2008/12",
  "legislation_title": "Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-act-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "section/16A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16A",
  "heading": "Power to set thresholds for exemption from registration",
  "text": "(1) The Department for Communities may by regulations provide that a charity is exempt from being registered in the register if it meets one or more specified threshold conditions.\n(2) A “threshold condition”, in relation to a charity, is—\n(a) a condition that the charity’s income does not exceed a specified amount, or\n(b) a condition that the value of the charity’s assets does not exceed a specified amount.\n(3) The regulations may make provision about—\n(a) what counts, or does not count, as income of a charity for the purposes of a threshold condition;\n(b) what count, or do not count, as assets of a charity for the purposes of a threshold condition;\n(c) quantifying income or values for the purposes of a threshold condition.\n(4) Provision under subsection (3)(c) may (in particular) be about—\n(a) the method, principles or basis for calculating, or estimating, income or values;\n(b) certifying, or providing other evidence of, amounts calculated or estimated;\n(c) the persons by whom any calculating, or estimating or certifying, is to be or may be done.\n(5) Sections 16B and 16C make further provision about what may be done by regulations under this section.\n(6) Regulations under this section may amend, repeal, revoke or otherwise modify any statutory provision.\n(7) Regulations under this section may not be made unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before, and approved by, a resolution of the Assembly.\n(8) Subsection (7) does not apply to regulations that do nothing more than alter an amount specified under subsection (2)(a) or (b).\n(9) In this section “specified” means specified in regulations under this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 16A-16C inserted (30.3.2022) by Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 11), ss. 3(5), 4(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/16A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:21.326157+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}