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(1)Every charity must be registered in the register of charities unless subsection (2) below applies to it.
(2)The following are not required to be registered—
(a)any exempt charity (see Schedule 2 to this Act);
(b)any charity which for the time being—
(i)is permanently or temporarily excepted by order of the Commission, and
(ii)complies with any conditions of the exception,
and whose gross income does not exceed £100,000;
(c)any charity which for the time being—
(i)is, or is of a description, permanently or temporarily excepted by regulations made by the [F2Minister], and
(ii)complies with any conditions of the exception,
and whose gross income does not exceed £100,000; and
(d)any charity whose gross income does not exceed £5,000.
(3)For the purposes of subsection (2)(b) above—
(a)any order made or having effect as if made under section 3(5)(b) of this Act (as originally enacted) and in force immediately before the appointed day has effect as from that day as if made under subsection (2)(b) (and may be varied or revoked accordingly); and
(b)no order may be made under subsection (2)(b) so as to except on or after the appointed day any charity that was not excepted immediately before that day.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (2)(c) above—
(a)any regulations made or having effect as if made under section 3(5)(b) of this Act (as originally enacted) and in force immediately before the appointed day have effect as from that day as if made under subsection (2)(c) (and may be varied or revoked accordingly);
(b)such regulations shall be made under subsection (2)(c) as are necessary to secure that all of the formerly specified institutions are excepted under that provision (subject to compliance with any conditions of the exception and the financial limit mentioned in that provision); but
(c)otherwise no regulations may be made under subsection (2)(c) so as to except on or after the appointed day any description of charities that was not excepted immediately before that day.
(5)In subsection (4)(b) above “formerly specified institutions” means—
(a)any institution falling within section 3(5B)(a)[F3(ii)] or (b) of this Act as in force immediately before the appointed day (certain educational institutions); or
(b)any institution ceasing to be an exempt charity by virtue of section 11 of the Charities Act 2006 or any order made under that section.
(6)A charity within—
(a)subsection (2)(b) or (c) above, or
(b)subsection (2)(d) above,
must, if it so requests, be registered in the register of charities.
(7)The Minister may by order amend—
(a)subsection (2)(b) and (c) above, or
(b)subsection (2)(d) above,
by substituting a different sum for the sum for the time being specified there.
(8)The Minister may only make an order under subsection (7) above—
(a)so far as it amends subsection (2)(b) and (c), if he considers it expedient to so with a view to reducing the scope of the exception provided by those provisions;
(b)so far as it amends subsection (2)(d), if he considers it expedient to do so in consequence of changes in the value of money or with a view to extending the scope of the exception provided by that provision,
and no order may be made by him under subsection (7)(a) unless a copy of a report under section 73 of the Charities Act 2006 (report on operation of that Act) has been laid before Parliament in accordance with that section.
(9)In this section “the appointed day” means the day on which subsections (1) to (5) above come into force by virtue of an order under section 79 of the Charities Act 2006 relating to section 9 of that Act (registration of charities).
(10)In this section any reference to a charity's “gross income” shall be construed, in relation to a particular time—
(a)as a reference to the charity's gross income in its financial year immediately preceding that time, or
(b)if the Commission so determines, as a reference to the amount which the Commission estimates to be the likely amount of the charity's gross income in such financial year of the charity as is specified in the determination.
(11)The following provisions of this section—
(a)subsection (2)(b) and (c),
(b)subsections (3) to (5), and
(c)subsections (6)(a), (7)(a), (8)(a) and (9),
shall cease to have effect on such day as the Minister may by order appoint for the purposes of this subsection.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 3-3B substituted for s. 3 (27.2.2007 for the insertion of ss. 3A(2)(c)(4)(b)(5), 3B(2)(b) for specified purposes, 31.1.2009 in so far as not already in force except for the insertion of s. 3A(6)) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), ss. 9, 79(2); S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch.; S.I. 2008/3267, art. 2, Sch. (with arts. 3-27) (as amended: (29.9.2009) by S.I. 2009/2648, art. 3; (26.7.2010) by S.I. 2010/1942, art. 2; and (1.8.2011) by S.I. 2011/1725, arts. 1(2), 3, Sch. para. 6)
F2Words in s. 3A(2)(c) substituted (13.12.2006) by The Transfer of Functions (Third Sector, Communities and Equality) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2951), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(d)
F3Word in s. 3A(5)(a) inserted (1.8.2011) by The Charities Act 2006 (Changes in Exempt Charities) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1725), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 2
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