Part 3Funding for charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institutions
C1Chapter 1Public charitable collections
Public collections certificates
51Applications for certificates
1
A person or persons proposing to promote public charitable collections (other than exempt collections) may apply to the Charity Commission for a public collections certificate in respect of those collections.
2
The application must be made—
a
within the specified period falling before the first of the collections is to commence, or
b
before such later date as the Commission may allow in the case of that application.
3
The application must—
a
be made in such form as may be specified,
b
specify the period for which the certificate is sought (which must be no more than 5 years), and
c
contain such other information as may be specified.
4
An application under this section may be made for a public collections certificate in respect of a single collection; and the references in this Chapter, in the context of such certificates, to public charitable collections are to be read accordingly.
5
In subsections (2) and (3) “specified” means specified in regulations made by the Commission after consulting such persons or bodies of persons as it considers appropriate.
6
Regulations under subsection (5)—
a
must be published in such manner as the Commission considers appropriate,
b
may make different provision for different cases or descriptions of case, and
c
may make such incidental, supplementary, consequential or transitional provision as the Commission considers appropriate.
7
In this section “exempt collection” means a public charitable collection which is an exempt collection by virtue of section 50.
Pt. 3 Ch. 1 power to amend or modify conferred by 1993 c. 10, Sch. 1C, paras. 6, 7 (as inserted (27.2.2007) by Charities Act 2006 (c. 50), s. 79(2), Sch. 4; S.I. 2007/309, art. 2, Sch.)