The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012

Members register: rights of access

7.—(1) A member or charity trustee of the CIO is entitled on request to inspect or to be provided with a copy of all or part of the register of members where—

(a) the request is made for the purposes of carrying out the requester’s duties as a charity trustee or member of the CIO; or

(b) the request is to inspect or to be provided with a copy of the entry in the register which is made for the requester.

(2) No other person is entitled to inspect or to be provided with a copy of the register kept by a CIO except as provided in sub-paragraph (3).

(3) A person is entitled on request to inspect or to be provided with a copy of all or part of the register of members if—

(a) in accordance with its constitution, some or all of the members of the CIO are liable to contribute to its assets if it is wound up;

(b) the CIO has been or is in the course of being wound up; and

(c) the request is made for the purposes of recovering a member’s contribution.

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), if not all of its members are liable to contribute to its assets if it is wound up, the entitlement is limited to those entries on the register that relate to members who are so liable.

(5) Where a CIO makes the register available for inspection or provides a copy in response to a request other than under sub-paragraph (1) it may require payment of such fee as the charity trustees may reasonably require in respect of the costs of complying with the request.