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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-exception-from-registration-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/180",
  "legislation_title": "The Charities (Exception from Registration) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-exception-from-registration-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Temporary exception of certain religious charities connected with certain bodies",
  "text": "(1) A charity to which this regulation applies is hereby excepted until 1st March 2001 from the duty to be registered under section 3(2) of the Act.\n(2) This regulation shall apply to a charity wholly or mainly concerned with the advancement of religion, being a charity connected with a body named in paragraph (3) below and either—\n(a) having as a trustee a trust corporation connected with that body; or\n(b) established wholly or mainly to make provision for public religious worship; or\n(c) in respect of which accounts are sent annually to the Methodist Conference, a Methodist Synod or any connexional or other committee or department appointed or established by the Methodist Conference.\n(3) The bodies referred to in paragraph (2) above are—\na church within the meaning of section 2 of the Baptist and Congregational Trusts Act 1951;\na church which is affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches;\na church which is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches;\nthe Calvinistic Methodist or Presbyterian Church of Wales;\nthe Church of England;\nthe Church in Wales;\nthe Methodist Church;\nthe Religious Society of Friends;\nthe United Reformed Church.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1951 c.xvii."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting": "uksi/2012/1734",
      "affecting_title": "The Charities (Exception from Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2012"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3012",
      "affecting_title": "The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012"
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    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2012/3012",
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    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2021/55",
      "affecting_title": "The Charities (Exception from Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2021"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1598",
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    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/180/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:42.627714+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."
}