Charities Act 2011

299 Local authorities’ power to appoint representative trustees

(1) This section applies where a parochial charity in a parish or (in Wales) a community is not—

(a) an ecclesiastical charity, or

(b) a charity founded within the preceding 40 years.

(2) If the charity trustees do not include persons—

(a) elected by the local government electors or inhabitants of the parish or community, or

(b) appointed by the parish council or parish meeting or (in Wales) by the community council or the county council or (as the case may be) county borough council,

the parish council or parish meeting or the community council or the county council or county borough council may appoint additional charity trustees, to such number as the Commission may allow.

(3) If there is a sole charity trustee not elected or appointed as mentioned in subsection (2), the number of the charity trustees may, with the approval of the Commission, be increased to 3, of whom—

(a) one may be nominated by the person holding the office of the sole trustee, and

(b) one may be nominated by the parish council or parish meeting or by the community council or the county council or county borough council.