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The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Consequential Amendments) Order 2017

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Draft 2017, ISBN 9780111159880

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Draft Order laid before Parliament under section 349(3) of the Charities Act 2011, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Charities, England And Wales

Made ***

Coming into force 1st January 2018

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 324(1)(b) of the Charities Act 2011f1.

A draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament pursuant to section 349(3) of the Charities Act 2011.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2011 c. 25. By virtue of article 10(1) and (2)(g) of S.I. 2016/997 the power to make this Order is exercisable by the Secretary of State.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Charities Act 2011
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Consequential Amendments) Order 2017 and comes into force on 1st January 2018.

2Amendment of the Charities Act 2011

In the table in Schedule 6f1 to the Charities Act 2011 (appeals and applications to Tribunal), after the entry relating to a decision of the Commission under section 231 of that Act, insert—

“

Decision of the Commission under regulations made by virtue of section 234 to refuse an application for the conversion of a community interest company into a CIO and the CIO’s registration as a charity.

The persons are—

  1. (a)

    the community interest company which made the application,

  2. (b)

    the directors of the community interest company, and

  3. (c)

    any other person who is or may be affected by the decision.

Power to—

  1. (a)

    quash the decision and (if appropriate) remit the matter to the Commission;

  2. (b)

    direct the Commission to grant the application.

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Signature

Name

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Date

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends Schedule 6 to the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”), which makes provision in respect of the circumstances in which an appeal might be brought to the First-tier or Upper Tribunal. This change is consequential to the coming into force of the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Conversion) Regulations 2017 which make provision for the conversion of a community interest company into a charitable incorporated organisation (“CIO”) and the CIO’s registration as a charity by virtue of section 234 of the Act.

Article 2 amends Schedule 6 such that a decision of the Charity Commission to refuse an application for the conversion of a community interest company into a CIO might be appealed to the First-tier or Upper Tribunal. The Act already provides for appeals and applications to be brought for like decisions in relation to the conversion of a charitable company or a registered society into a CIO.

An impact assessment has been prepared for this instrument and has been laid before Parliament together with this instrument.