{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-references-in-documents-scotland-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-references-in-documents-scotland-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2007/203",
  "legislation_title": "The Charities References in Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-references-in-documents-scotland-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Required information",
  "text": "(1) A body entered in the Scottish Charity Register must state, in legible characters–\n(a) the registered number allocated to it by OSCR as part of the registration process;\n(b) its name as entered in the Scottish Charity Register;\n(c) any other name by which it is commonly known; and\n(d) where the name entered in the Scottish Charity Register does not include “charity” or “charitable”, that it is a charity by using one of the terms referred to in section 13(1) or (2) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005,\non all documents listed in regulation 4 and which are issued or signed on behalf of the charity after 31st March 2008.\n(2) Where a body is entered in the Scottish Charity Register after 30th September 2007, this regulation shall apply to documents listed in regulation 4 and which are issued or signed on behalf of the charity after the date which is 6 months after entry in the Register.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“OSCR” is defined in section 1 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2024/111",
      "affecting_title": "The Charities (References in Documents) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2024"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/203/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:14:08.490590+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."
}