{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-referendum-act-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-31",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/36",
  "legislation_title": "European Union Referendum Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-union-referendum-act-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 6 of Schedule 15 to the 2000 Act (prohibition on accepting donations from persons who are not permissible donors) has effect for the purposes of the referendum with the following modifications.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1)(a) has effect for those purposes as if after “a permissible donor falling within section 54(2)” there were inserted “ or a person within sub-paragraph (1A) ”.\n(3) For the purposes of the referendum the following sub-paragraph is to be treated as inserted after sub-paragraph (1)—\n“(1A) The persons within this sub-paragraph are—\n(a) a Gibraltar elector;\n(b) a body falling within any of paragraphs (b) to (g) of section 54(2A);\n(c) a body incorporated by Royal Charter which does not fall within section 54(2);\n(d) a charitable incorporated organisation within the meaning of Part 11 of the Charities Act 2011 or Part 11 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008;\n(e) a Scottish charitable incorporated organisation within the meaning of Chapter 7 of Part 1 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 10);\n(f) a partnership constituted under the law of Scotland which carries on business in the United Kingdom.”\n(4) Sub-paragraph (3) has effect for those purposes as if after “exempt trust donation” there were inserted “ or exempt Gibraltar trust donation ”.\n(5) Sub-paragraph (4) has effect for those purposes as if—\n(a) in paragraph (a) after “exempt trust donation” there were inserted “ or exempt Gibraltar trust donation ”,\n(b) in paragraph (b)(i) after “permissible donors falling within section 54(2)” there were inserted “ or persons within sub-paragraph (1A) ”,\n(c) in paragraph (b)(ii) after “such a permissible donor” there were inserted “ or such a person ”, and\n(d) after “not such a permissible donor” there were inserted “ and is not within sub-paragraph (1A) ”.\n(6) For the purposes of the referendum the following sub-paragraph is to be treated as inserted after sub-paragraph (8)—\n“(9) In relation to a relevant donation in the form of a bequest sub-paragraph (1A)(a) is to be read as referring to an individual who was, at any time within the period of five years ending with the date of the individual's death, a Gibraltar elector.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 31 in force at 1.2.2016 by S.I. 2016/69, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/36/schedule/1/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:37.152995+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."
}