{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-community-interest-company-regulations-2005/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-community-interest-company-regulations-2005/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110726251",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Interest Company Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-community-interest-company-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Political activities not to be treated as being carried on for the benefit of the community",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the community interest test the following activities are to be treated as not being activities which a reasonable person might consider are activities carried on for the benefit of the community:\n(a) the promotion of, or the opposition to, changes in—\n(i) any law applicable in Great Britain or elsewhere; or\n(ii) the policy adopted by any governmental or public authority in relation to any matter;\n(b) the promotion of, or the opposition (including the promotion of changes) to, the policy which any governmental or public authority proposes to adopt in relation to any matter; and\n(c) activities which can reasonably be regarded as intended or likely to—\n(i) provide or affect support (whether financial or otherwise) for a political party or political campaigning organisation; or\n(ii) influence voters in relation to any election or referendum.\n(2) But activities of the descriptions prescribed in paragraph (1) are to be treated as being activities which a reasonable person might consider are activities carried on for the benefit of the community if—\n(a) they can reasonably be regarded as incidental to other activities, which a reasonable person might consider are being carried on for the benefit the community; and\n(b) those other activities cannot reasonably be regarded as incidental to activities of any of the descriptions prescribed in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110726251/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:24.159002+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."
}