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				Charities Act 1993 (c.10)
				Introductory Text
				Main body
				Part I The Charity Commissioners and the Official Custodian for Charities
				1. The Charity Commissioners.
				2. The official custodian for charities.
				Part II Registration and Names of Charities
				Registration of charities
				3. The register of charities.
				4. Effect of, and claims and objections to, registration.
				5. Status of registered charity (other than small charity) to appear on official publications etc.
				Charity names
				6. Power of Commissioners to require charity's name to be changed.
				7. Effect of direction under s. 6 where charity is a company.
				Part III Commissioners' Information Powers
				8. General power to institute inquiries.
				9. Power to call for documents and search records.
				10. Disclosure of information to and by Commissioners.
				11. Supply of false or misleading information to Commissioners, etc.
				12. Data protection.
				Part IV Application of Property Cy-près and Assistance and Supervision of Charities by Court and Commissioners
				Extended powers of court and variation of charters
				13. Occasions for applying property cy-près.
				14. Application cy-près of gifts of donors unknown or disclaiming.
				15. Charities governed by charter, or by or under statute.
				Powers of Commissioners to make schemes and act for protection of charities etc.
				16. Concurrent jurisdiction with High Court for certain purposes.
				17. Further powers to make schemes or alter application of charitable property.
				18. Power to act for protection of charities.
				19. Supplementary provisions relating to receiver and manager appointed for a charity.
				20. Publicity for proceedings under ss. 16 to 18.
				Property vested in official custodian
				21. Entrusting charity property to official custodian, and termination of trust.
				22. Supplementary provisions as to property vested in official custodian.
				23. Divestment in the case of land subject to Reverter of Sites Act 1987.
				Establishment of common investment or deposit funds
				24. Schemes to establish common investment funds.
				25. Schemes to establish common deposit funds.
				Additional powers of Commissioners
				26. Power to authorise dealings with charity property etc.
				27. Power to authorise ex gratia payments etc.
				28. Power to give directions about dormant bank accounts of charities.
				29. Power to advise charity trustees.
				30. Powers for preservation of charity documents.
				31. Power to order taxation of solicitor's bill.
				Legal proceedings relating to charities
				32. Proceedings by Commissioners.
				33. Proceedings by other persons.
				34. Report of s. 8 inquiry to be evidence in certain proceedings.
				Meaning of "trust corporation"
				35. Application of provisions to trust corporations appointed under s. 16 or 18.
				Part V Charity Land
				36. Restrictions on dispositions.
				37. Supplementary provisions relating to dispositions.
				38. Restrictions on mortgaging.
				39. Supplementary provisions relating to mortgaging.
				40. Release of charity rentcharges.
				Part VI Charity Accounts, Reports and Returns
				41. Duty to keep accounting records.
				42. Annual statements of accounts.
				43. Annual audit or examination of charity accounts.
				44. Supplementary provisions relating to audits etc.
				45. Annual reports.
				46. Special provision as respects accounts and annual reports of exempt and other excepted charities.
				47. Public inspection of annual reports etc.
				48. Annual returns by registered charities.
				49. Offences.
				Part VII Incorporation of Charity Trustees
				50. Incorporation of trustees of a charity.
				51. Estate to vest in body corporate.
				52. Applications for incorporation.
				53. Nomination of trustees, and filling up vacancies.
				54. Liability of trustees and others, notwithstanding incorporation.
				55. Certificate to be evidence of compliance with requirements for incorporation.
				56. Power of Commissioners to amend certificate of incorporation.
				57. Records of applications and certificates.
				58. Enforcement of orders and directions.
				59. Gifts to charity before incorporation to have same effect afterwards.
				60. Execution of documents by incorporated body.
				61. Power of Commissioners to dissolve incorporated body.
				62. Interpretation of Part VII.
				Part VIII Charitable Companies
				63. Winding up.
				64. Alteration of objects clause.
				65. Invalidity of certain transactions.
				66. Requirement of consent of Commissioners to certain acts.
				67. Name to appear on correspondence etc.
				68. Status to appear on correspondence etc.
				69. Investigation of accounts.
				Part IX Miscellaneous
				Powers of investment
				70. Relaxation of restrictions on wider-range investments.
				71. Extension of powers of investment.
				Disqualification for acting as charity trustee
				72. Persons disqualified for being trustees of a charity.
				73. Person acting as charity trustee while disqualified.
				Small charities
				[74. Power to transfer all property, modify objects etc.]
				75. Power to spend capital.
				Local charities
				76. Local authority's index of local charities.
				77. Reviews of local charities by local authority.
				78. Co-operation between charities, and between charities and local authorities.
				79. Parochial charities.
				Scottish charities
				80. Supervision by Commissioners of certain Scottish charities.
				Administrative provisions about charities
				[81. Manner of giving notice of charity meetings, etc.]
				82. Manner of executing instruments.
				83. Transfer and evidence of title to property vested in trustees.
				Part X Supplementary
				84. Supply by Commissioners of copies of documents open to public inspection.
				85. Fees and other amounts payable to Commissioners.
				86. Regulations and orders.
				87. Enforcement of requirements by order of Commissioners.
				88. Enforcement of orders of Commissioners.
				89. Other provisions as to orders of Commissioners.
				90. Directions of the Commissioners.
				91. Service of orders and directions.
				92. Appeals from Commissioners.
				93. Miscellaneous provisions as to evidence.
				94. Restriction on institution of proceedings for certain offences.
				95. Offences by bodies corporate.
				96. Construction of references to a "charity" or to particular classes of charity.
				97. General interpretation.
				98. Consequential amendments and repeals.
				99. Commencement and transitional provisions.
				100. Short title and extent.
				Schedules
				SCHEDULE 1 Constitution etc. of Charity Commissioners
				SCHEDULE 2 Exempt Charities
				SCHEDULE 3 Enlargement of Areas of Local Charities
				SCHEDULE 4 Court's Jurisdiction over Certain Charities Governed by or under Statute
				SCHEDULE 5 Meaning of"connected person" for purposes of section 36(2)
				SCHEDULE 6 Consequential Amendments
				SCHEDULE 7 Repeals
				SCHEDULE 8 Transitional Provisions
				Part I Provisions Applying Pending Coming Into Force of Part VI etc.
				Part II Provisions Applying Pending Coming Into Force of"Financial Year" Regulations
				TABLE OF DERIVATIONS

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