{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charity-commissioners-fees-copies-and-extracts-regulations-1992/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charity-commissioners-fees-copies-and-extracts-regulations-1992/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2986",
  "legislation_title": "The Charity Commissioners' Fees (Copies and Extracts) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charity-commissioners-fees-copies-and-extracts-regulations-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which extend to England and Wales only, prescribe the fees which are payable to the Charity Commissioners (“the Commissioners”) where they furnish a copy of, or extract from, documents kept by them in accordance with the duties to do so imposed by section 9 of the Charities Act 1960 (as substituted by Schedule 3 to the Charities Act 1992) and section 7 of the Charitable Trustees Incorporation Act 1872 (see the definition of “relevant document” in regulation 1(2)). The former provision concerns documents in the Commissioners' possession which are open to inspection under the 1960 Act and the latter such documents which are open to inspection under the 1872 Act. Under section 4(7) of the 1960 Act the register of charities and copies or particulars of the trusts of any registered charity (which are required to be supplied to the Commissioners under section 4(5) of that Act) are required to be kept open to public inspection. Section 4(7A) of the 1960 Act (as inserted by section 2(6) of the 1992 Act) makes provision for the circumstances where information on the register is kept other than in documentary form (for example, on a computer). The register is, in fact, currently kept on a computer. Statements of the accounts of charities are also open to inspection.\nRegulation 2 prescribes a fee for furnishing photocopies of the whole or part of relevant documents. Regulation 3 prescribes a fee for print-outs of the whole or part of relevant documents which are held on the Commissioners' computer and where a lower fee is not payable under regulation 4 (where the request in question is also capable of falling within that regulation).\nRegulation 4 prescribes fees for extracts from the register of charities where the person requesting the extracts identifies the charities in respect of which he wants them either by their names or registered numbers. The fee differs according to whether the extract is a short (regulation 4(2)), standard (regulation 4(3)) or detailed (regulation 4(4)) extract; these terms are defined in regulation 4(5).\nRegulation 5 prescribes the fee where the extracts from the register of charities are obtained in response to a specially designed computer programme. The fee chargeable depends upon the number of criteria by reference to which the information is obtained and whether short, standard or detailed extracts from the register are required to be furnished by the specially designed programme.\nUnder regulation 6 the Commissioners may, if it appears to them appropriate to do so, confer such exemption as they see fit from the liability to pay a fee prescribed by these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2986/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:10:59.242914+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."
}