The Charities References in Documents (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 59

CHARITIES

The Charities References in Documents (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008

Made

21st February 2008

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

22nd February 2008

Coming into force

1st April 2008

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 15 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Charities References in Documents (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008 and come into force on 1st April 2008.

Amendment

2.  The Charities References in Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2007(2) are amended as follows–

(a) in regulation 4(d), delete “bills of exchange”; and

(b) at the end of regulation 4 add–

“(k) bills of exchange, other than those which are cheques within the meaning of section 73 of the Bills of Exchange Act 1882(3)”.

FERGUS EWING

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

21st February 2008

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make minor amendments to the Charities References in Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2007. The reference to “bills of exchange” in regulation 4(d) of those Regulations is deleted and replaced with a new entry which clarifies that cheques, as defined in the Bills of Exchange Act 1882, are not included in the list of documents on which specified information about a charity must be stated.

(1)

2005 asp 10.

(2)

S.S.I. 2007/203.

(3)

1882 c. 61.