Part 6Cy-près powers and assistance and supervision of charities by court and Commission

Publicity relating to schemes and orders

89Publicity for orders relating to trustees or other individuals

(1)

The Commission may not make any order under this Act to appoint, discharge or remove a charity trustee or trustee for a charity, other than—

(a)

an order relating to the official custodian, or

(b)

an order under section 76(3)(b) (appointment of additional charity trustees),F1or

(c)

an order under section 79A (removal of disqualified trustee),

unless, before doing so, the Commission has complied with the publicity requirement in subsection (2).

This is subject to any disapplication of that requirement under subsection (4).

(2)

The publicity requirement is that the Commission must give public notice of its proposals, inviting representations to be made to it within a period specified in the notice.

(3)

The time when any such notice is given is to be decided by the Commission.

(4)

The Commission may determine that the publicity requirement is not to apply in relation to a particular order if it is satisfied that for any reason compliance with the requirement is unnecessary.

(5)

Before the Commission makes an order under this ActF2, other than an order under section 79A, to remove a person who is—

(a)

a charity trustee or trustee for a charity, or

(b)

an officer, agent or employee of a charity,

without the person's consent, the Commission must give the person not less than one month's notice of its proposals, inviting representations to be made to it within a period specified in the notice.

This does not apply if the person cannot be found or has no known address in the United Kingdom.

(6)

Where the Commission gives notice of any proposals under this section—

(a)

it must take into account any representations made to it within the period specified in the notice, and

(b)

it may (without further notice) proceed with the proposals either without modifications or with such modifications as it thinks desirable.

(7)

Any notice of any proposals which is to be given under this section—

(a)

is to contain such particulars of the proposals, or such directions for obtaining information about them, as the Commission thinks sufficient and appropriate, and

(b)

(in the case of a public notice) is to be given in such manner as the Commission thinks sufficient and appropriate.

(8)

Any notice to be given under subsection (5)—

(a)

may be given by post, and

(b)

if given by post, may be addressed to the recipient's last known address in the United Kingdom.