{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-and-contracting-out-act-1994/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-and-contracting-out-act-1994/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/40",
  "legislation_title": "Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-and-contracting-out-act-1994",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Offences under section 63 of the Charities Act 1992: creation of statutory defence.",
  "text": "(1) Section 63 of the Charities Act 1992 (which makes it an offence to solicit property for an institution while falsely representing that it is a registered charity) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—\n“(1A) In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (1), it shall be a defence for the accused to prove that he believed on reasonable grounds that the institution was a registered charity.”\n(3) In subsection (2) (meaning of “registered charity”) for the words “subsection (1)” there shall be substituted “ this section ”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/40/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:33.258725+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."
}