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The Exempt Charities Order 2025

S.I. 2025/121 · Made 5 February 2025

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Made 5th February 2025

Coming into force 6th February 2025

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 5th day of February 2025

Present,

The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

His Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 3 to the Charities Act 2011f1, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2011 c.25.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Exempt Charities Order 2025 and shall come into force on 6th February 2025.

2

St Mary’s University, Twickenham is hereby declared to be an exempt charity for the purposes of the Charities Act 2011.

Signature

Richard Tilbrook

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order declares St Mary’s University, Twickenham to be an exempt charity within the meaning of the Charities Act 2011 with effect from 6th February 2025. An exempt charity cannot be registered with the Charity Commission and the Commission cannot exercise any powers under the Act in relation to an exempt charity except:

  1. i)

    it may exercise advisory and permissive powers at the charity’s request, following consultation with any principal regulator appointed under the Charities Act 2011;

  2. ii)

    it may open a statutory inquiry and use powers to act for the protection of charities at the invitation of any principal regulator appointed under the Charities Act.

The Office for Students (OfS) has been appointed principal regulator for exempt Higher Education Providers in England, and automatically becomes principal regulator for St Mary’s University, Twickenham.