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Parliamentary Report

October 2011–January 2012

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2012

Frank Cranmer
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University

Extract

As predicted, the Charities Act 2011, which consolidates the Recreational Charities Act 1958, the Charities Act 1993 and many of the provisions of the Charities Act 2006, received Royal Assent on 14 December and came into force on 14 March 2012, three months after its enactment.

Type
Parliamentary Report
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2012

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References

1 Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/25/enacted>, accessed 28 December 2011.

2 [2011] UKUT 421 (TCC) (13 October 2011), available at <http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/TCC/2011/421.pdf>, accessed 28 December 2011.

3 Mason, T, ‘Charity Commission will not appeal schools judgment’, Third Sector Online, 3 January 2012Google Scholar.

4 Which now appear as ss 2 and 11 of the 2011 Act. The definition of ‘charitable purpose’ in s 2 is of general application; the definition in s 11 has a much more limited application. There were attempts to change this as the 2011 Act was going through Parliament, but Lords and Commons Standing Orders provide that a consolidation bill cannot make substantive changes to legislation.

5 Commission on Scottish Devolution, Serving Scotland Better: Scotland and the United Kingdom in the 21st century (Edinburgh, 2009)Google Scholar.

6 ‘Restricted funds’ are property (including money) given to a charity for a specific purpose and with conditions on its use.

7 Personal communication from the Clerk of Bills, Northern Ireland Assembly.

8 (2012) 14 Ecc LJ 95.

9 Not least by the Editor of this Journal in an Opinion for the Christian Institute, which was subsequently published by the House of Lords Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee: see <http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/merits-statutory-instruments/Professor-Mark-Hill-QC-Legal-Opinion-to-Merits-Committee-on-Marriages-and-Civil-Partnerships-%28Approved-Premises%29-%28Amendment%29-Regulations%202011.pdf>, accessed 30 December 2011.

10 Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2661/contents/made>, accessed 30 December 2011. They were subject to the negative procedure.

11 HL Deb 15 December 2011 c 1445.

12 (2012) 14 Ecc LJ 97–98.

13 Carrell, Severin, ‘West Lothian question inquiry “risks creating second-class MPs”’, The Guardian, 17 January 2012Google Scholar.

14 See <http://www.lpwscheme.org.uk/prorata_percentage.htm>, accessed 17 February 2012.

15 Available at <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2012/1/contents/enacted>, accessed 25 January 2012.