2Investigations and power to suspend
(1)Section 76 of the Charities Act 2011 (suspension of trustees etc and appointment of interim managers) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1)(a), for “any” substitute “a failure to comply with an order or direction of the Commission, a failure to remedy any breach specified in a warning under section 75A, or any other”.
(3)In subsection (4), at the end insert “, subject to any extension under subsection (7)”.
(4)At the end add—
“(7)At any time before the expiry of an order under paragraph (a) of subsection (3) the Commission may extend or further extend the suspension by an order under that paragraph, provided that—
(a)the order does not extend the suspension for a period of more than 12 months, and
(b)the total period of suspension is not more than 2 years.”