{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015/section-29",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/26",
  "legislation_title": "Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Section 28(1)(b): interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of section 28(1)(b).\n(2) “Qualifying activity” means any activity carried on—\n(a) by a business for the purposes of the business, or\n(b) by a voluntary or community body for the purposes of the body.\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) the references to a business or a voluntary or community body do not include a business or a voluntary or community body which—\n(a) is controlled by a public authority, or\n(b) is acting on behalf of a public authority in carrying out the activity.\n(4) The Secretary of State must publish a statement as to how it is to be determined whether a business or a voluntary or community body is controlled by a public authority.\n(5) “Voluntary or community body” means any of the following—\n(a) a trade union (within the meaning of section 1 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 or Article 3 of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/807 (N.I. 5)));\n(b) an unincorporated body which does not distribute any surplus it makes to its members;\n(c) a charity;\n(d) a company limited by guarantee which does not distribute any surplus it makes to its members;\n(e) a registered society within the meaning given by section 1 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014;\n(f) a registered society within the meaning given by section 1A of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 24 (N.I.)) or a credit union within the meaning of the Credit Unions (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 (S.I. 1985/1205 (N.I. 12));\n(g) a community interest company;\n(h) a charitable incorporated organisation within the meaning of Part 11 of the Charities Act 2011 or of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 12 (N.I.));\n(i) 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(5) substituted (29.8.2023) by Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (c. 28), ss. 18(3), 22(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 29 in force at 1.7.2015 by S.I. 2015/1329, reg. 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/26/section/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:47.994452+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."
}