{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-hospitals-paying-patients-act-1936/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/17",
  "legislation_title": "Voluntary Hospitals (Paying Patients) Act 1936",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-hospitals-paying-patients-act-1936",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Power to Charity Commission to make rules.",
  "text": "(1) The Charity Commission may make rules in relation to applications for Orders and proceedings in connection therewith, and to the publication of notices and advertisements and the manner in which and the time within which representations of objections with reference to any application or other proceedings are to be made, and to the holding of inquiries in such cases as it may think advisable and to any other matters arising under or in pursuance of this Act.\n(2) Any rules made in pursuance of this section shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after they are made.\n(3) The Charity Commission may require such sum as it may determine to represent costs or expenses incurred by it in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by this Act (including a sum in respect of the services of a member of staff engaged in an inquiry) to be provided out of any funds, being funds under the control of the committee of management of the hospital in relation to which the expenses are incurred, whether representing capital or income, which in the opinion of the Charity Commission may properly be made applicable for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(1) substituted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 8 para. 26(2)(a); S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 5(1) substituted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 8 para. 26(2)(b); S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(3) substituted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 8 para. 26(3)(a); S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(3) substituted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 8 para. 26(3)(b); S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 5(3) substituted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 8 para. 26(3)(c); S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 heading substituted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 8 para. 26(4); S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/17/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:35:18.946383+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."
}