{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-reorganisation-scotland-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/204",
  "legislation_title": "The Charities Reorganisation (Scotland) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charities-reorganisation-scotland-regulations-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for the application procedure that charities must follow in applying to the Scottish Charity Regulator (“OSCR”) for approval to reorganise.\nRegulation 2 sets out the information that charities must include with their application. Charities with an income of £250,000 and over in a year must prepare a draft notice of their proposed reorganisation scheme to accompany their application, which informs the public that objections to the reorganisation scheme should be sent to OSCR. Regulation 4 provides that this notice should be published in a newspaper circulating throughout Scotland, unless the purposes of the charity relate to a particular locality, in which case it may either be published in a newspaper circulating throughout Scotland or in a local newspaper.\nRegulation 3 provides that OSCR must write to the charity acknowledging receipt of the application to reorganise within 14 days of receipt. It also requires OSCR to prepare and publish a notice summarising the proposed reorganisation scheme of a charity for inclusion on its website, again advising that objections should be sent to OSCR and specifying the latest date for receipt of objections by OSCR.\nRegulation 5 sets out how an objection to a charity’s proposed reorganisation scheme can be made and the information that objectors to the scheme must provide to OSCR.\nRegulation 6 provides that OSCR must make a decision whether to approve the proposed reorganisation scheme of a charity within 6 months of the latest date for receipt of objections by OSCR and OSCR must consider all objections received before making its decision. Regulation 6 also requires OSCR to send a copy of its decision to the charity and to any person that has sent it a notice of objection, within 7 days.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/204/note",
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  "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."
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