{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-audit-investigations-and-community-enterprise-act-2004/section-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-audit-investigations-and-community-enterprise-act-2004/section-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/27",
  "legislation_title": "Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-audit-investigations-and-community-enterprise-act-2004",
  "path": "section/39",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Becoming a community interest company: English charities",
  "text": "(1) A company that is an English charity may not become a community interest company without the prior written consent of the Charity Commission.\n(2) If a company that is an English charity contravenes subsection (1), the Charity Commission may apply to the High Court for an order quashing any altered certificate of incorporation issued under section 38A .\n(3) If a company that is an English charity becomes a community interest company, that does not affect the application of—\n(a) any property acquired under any disposition or agreement previously made otherwise than for full consideration in money or money’s worth, or any property representing property so acquired,\n(b) any property representing income which has previously accrued, or\n(c) the income from any such property.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 39 substituted (6.4.2007) by The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1093), art. 1(3), Sch. 4 para. 9(b) (with art. 11(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 39(1) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 228(3) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 39(1)(2) substituted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 8 para. 201; S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch.; S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 39(2) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 228(4) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 39(4) omitted (6.4.2007) by virtue of The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1093), art. 1(3), Sch. 4 para. 9(d) (with art. 11(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 39 heading substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 228(2) (with art. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 39 in force at 1.7.2005 by S.I. 2004/3322, art. 2(3), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/27/section/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:59.566027+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."
}