Charities Act 2011

Power to call for documents etc. and exempt charities

13 (1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies if, in relation to charities of a particular description or a particular charity, paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to the 2006 Act (removal of exclusion of exempt charities from power to call for documents etc.) has not been brought into force before the commencement of this Act.

(2) In relation to those charities or that charity, section 52 (power to call for documents) has effect until the relevant commencement date with the insertion after subsection (1) of—

“(1A) No person properly having the custody of documents relating only to an exempt charity is required under subsection (1) to transmit to the Commission any of those documents, or to provide any copy of or extract from any of them.”