Charities Act 2022

25 Working names etc

In section 42 of the Charities Act 2011 (power to require name to be changed)—

(a) in the heading, after “name” insert “or working name”;

(b) for subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) If one or more of the conditions in subsection (2) are met in relation to the name or a working name of a charity, the Commission may give a direction—

(a) requiring the name of the charity to be changed to a name determined by the charity trustees with the approval of the Commission, or

(b) requiring that that working name of the charity no longer be used as a working name (as the case may be).

(1A) A direction given under this section must specify the period within which the charity is to comply with the direction.”;

(c) in subsection (2)—

(i) for paragraph (a) and the words before it substitute—

“(2) The conditions are—

(a) that the name or working name is the same as, or in the opinion of the Commission too like, the name or a working name of another charity,”;

(ii) in paragraph (b), for “the name” substitute “that the name or working name”;

(iii) in paragraph (c), for “the name” substitute “that the name or working name”;

(iv) in paragraph (c), for “its name” substitute “the name or working name”;

(v) in paragraph (d), for “the name of the charity” substitute “that the name or working name”;

(vi) in paragraph (e), for “the name of the charity” substitute “that the name or working name”;

(d) omit subsection (3);

(e) for subsection (4) substitute—

“(4) In this Act, any reference to a working name of a charity is a reference to a name that is not the name of the charity but which is used to designate the charity and under which activities of the charity are carried out.”