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