{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-and-trustee-investment-scotland-act-2005/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-and-trustee-investment-scotland-act-2005/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/10",
  "legislation_title": "Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-and-trustee-investment-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Change of name",
  "text": "(1) A charity may change its name only with OSCR's consent.\n(2) A charity which proposes to change its name must ... give notice to OSCR specifying its proposed new name.\n(3) Unless OSCR, within 28 days of the date on which a notice is given under subsection (2) —\n(a) refuses its consent, or\n(b) directs the charity not to change its name to that proposed new name for a period of not more than 6 months specified in the direction,\nOSCR is to be taken as having given its consent.\n(3A) A direction under subsection (3)(b)—\n(a) may be revoked at any time,\n(b) may be varied, but not so as to have effect for a period of more than 6 months from the date on which it is given.\n(3B) Where OSCR gives such a direction it must, after making such inquiries as it thinks fit—\n(a) give its consent, whether or not subject to conditions, or\n(b) refuse its consent.\n(4) OSCR may refuse to consent to a charity changing its name only where\n(a) it considers that the proposed new name falls within section 10 , or\n(b) it is unable, after making reasonable inquiries, to satisfy itself that the proposed new name does not fall within section 10.\n(5) OSCR may, at the request of a charity, grant consent to a different proposed new name than that specified by the charity in the notice given by it under subsection (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(2) repealed (1.4.2024) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), s. 21(2), sch. para. 7(2); S.S.I. 2024/63, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(3) substituted (1.4.2024) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), s. 21(2), sch. para. 5(2)(a)(i); S.S.I. 2024/63, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(3) repositioned (1.4.2024) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), s. 21(2), sch. para. 5(2)(a)(ii); S.S.I. 2024/63, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 11(3A)(3B) inserted (1.4.2024) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), s. 21(2), sch. para. 5(2)(b); S.S.I. 2024/63, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(4) renumbered as s. 11(4)(a) (1.4.2024) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), s. 21(2), sch. para. 5(2)(c)(i); S.S.I. 2024/63, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 11(4)(b) and word inserted (1.4.2024) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), s. 21(2), sch. para. 5(2)(c)(ii); S.S.I. 2024/63, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 11(5) inserted (1.4.2024) by Charities (Regulation and Administration) (Scotland) Act 2023 (asp 5), s. 21(2), sch. para. 5(2)(d); S.S.I. 2024/63, reg. 2(1), sch. Pt. 1 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 11 in force at 24.4.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/189, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/10/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:24.571875+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."
}