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English: An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of the Charity Commission for England and Wales and the Charity Tribunal; to make other amendments of the law about charities, including provision about charitable incorporated organisations; to make further provision about public charitable collections and other fund-raising carried on in connection with charities and other ...
The Charities Act 2006 (c. 50) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom intended to alter the regulatory framework in which charities operate, partly by amending the Charities Act 1993. The act was mostly superseded by the Charities Act 2011 , which consolidates charity law in the UK.
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Charitable Uses Act 1601; Charities (Amendment) Act 1995; Charities Act 2005; Charities Act 2006; Charities Act 2006 (Charitable Companies Audit and Group Accounts Provisions) Order 2008; Charities Act 2011; Charities Acts 1992
Prior to the Charities Act 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 58), this "failed purpose" situation was the only time when cy-pres could be applied; it required the original purpose to be impossible or impractical. With the 1960 Act (the relevant provisions of which are now included in the 1993 Act), cy-pres can be applied where the original purposes have:
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However this supervision was not always formalised, and the Charities Act 2006 (which was consolidated into the 2011 act) introduced the idea of "principal regulator" for exempt charities. Where a previously exempt charity had no principal regulator it would become subject to registration with, and regulation by, the Charity Commission.
Strictly speaking the CIO is a new entity, and there is no continuity of legal personality with the former charity. (Despite a natural reading of Chapter Four of the Charities Act 2011, [6] this is true even where the precursor charity is a charitable company.) This can have profound effects on the continuity of business, and can be a ...