Regulation 10 Amendment of the Charities Reorganisation (Scotland) Regulations 2007

After regulation 6, insert—

“Very small charities: simplified procedure

7.

(1)

On receipt of an application under section 39 of the 2005 Act by a very small charity, OSCR may apply a simplified procedure to the application.

(2)

Where OSCR applies a simplified procedure—

(a)

OSCR must write to the charity to confirm that a simplified procedure will be applied to the application, within 14 days of the date of receipt of the application; and

(b)

regulations 3, 5 and 6 do not apply to the application.

(3)

Under the simplified procedure, OSCR must—

(a)

make a decision on the application within 13 weeks of receipt of the application; and

(b)

send a copy of its decision to the charity within 7 days of the date of the decision being made.”.