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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-charities-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-162",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110800677",
  "legislation_title": "The Charities (Northern Ireland) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-charities-northern-ireland-order-2007",
  "path": "article/162",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "162",
  "heading": "Power of Department to give financial assistance to charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institutions",
  "text": "(1) The Department may give financial assistance to any charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution in respect of any of the institution’s activities which directly or indirectly benefit the whole or any part of Northern Ireland.\n(2) Financial assistance under paragraph (1) may be given in any form and, in particular, may be given by way of—\n(a) grants,\n(b) loans,\n(c) guarantees, or\n(d) incurring expenditure for the benefit of the person assisted.\n(3) Financial assistance under paragraph (1) may be given on such terms and conditions as the Department considers appropriate.\n(4) Those terms and conditions may, in particular, include provision as to—\n(a) the purposes for which the assistance may be used;\n(b) circumstances in which the assistance is to be repaid, or otherwise made good, to the Department, and the manner in which that is to be done;\n(c) the making of reports to the Department regarding the uses to which the assistance has been put;\n(d) the keeping, and making available for inspection, of accounts and other records;\n(e) the carrying out of examinations by the Comptroller and Auditor General into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which the assistance has been used;\n(f) the giving by the institution of financial assistance in any form to other persons on such terms and conditions as the institution or the Department considers appropriate.\n(5) A person receiving assistance under this Article must comply with the terms and conditions on which it is given, and compliance may be enforced by the Department.\n(6) The Department may make arrangements for—\n(a) assistance under paragraph (1) to be given, or\n(b) any other of its functions under this Article to be exercised,\nby some other person.\n(7) Arrangements under paragraph (6) may make provision for the functions concerned to be so exercised—\n(a) either wholly or to such extent as may be specified in the arrangements, and\n(b) either generally or in such cases or circumstances as may be so specified,\nbut do not prevent the functions concerned from being exercised by the Department.\n(8) As soon as possible after 31st March in each year, the Department must make a report on the exercise of powers under this Article during the period of 12 months ending on that day.\n(9) The Department must lay a copy of the report before the Assembly.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110800677/article/162",
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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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