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Introductory Text
PART I The central authorities
1.The Charity Commissioners
2.The Minister of Education
3.The official custodian for charities
PART II Provisions for inquiring into, making known and co-ordinating charitable activities
Registration of charities
4.Register of charities
5.Effect of, and claims and objections to, registration
Powers of Commissioners and Minister to obtain information, etc.
6.General power to institute inquiries
7.Power to call for documents, and search records
8.Receipt and audit of accounts of charities
9.Exchange of information, etc.
Powers of local authorities and of charity trustees
10.Local authority's index of local charities
11.Reviews of local charities by local authority
12.Co-operation between charities, and between charities and local authorities
PART III Application of property cy-près, and assistance and supervision of charities by court and central authorities
Extended powers of court, and variation of charters
13.Occasions for applying property cy-près
14.Application cy-près of gifts of donors unknown or disclaiming
15.Charities governed by charter, or by or under statute
Property vested in official custodian
16.Entrusting charity property to official custodian, and determination of trust
17.Supplementary provisions as to property vested in official custodian
Powers of Commissioners and Minister to make schemes, etc.
18.Concurrent jurisdiction with High Court for certain purposes
19.Further powers to make schemes or alter application of charitable property
20.Power to act for protection of charities
21.Publicity for proceedings under ss. 18 to 20
Establishment of common investment funds
22.Schemes to establish common investment funds
Miscellaneous powers of Commissioners and Minister
23.Power to authorise dealings with charity property, etc.
24.Power to advise charity trustees
25.Powers for preservation of charity documents
26.Power to order taxation of solicitor's bill
27.Powers for recovery or redemption of charity rentcharges
Miscellaneous
28.Taking of legal proceedings
29.Restrictions on dealing with charity property
30.Charitable companies
31.Protection of expression " common good
PART IV Miscellaneous provisions as to charities and their affairs
32.General obligation to keep accounts
33.Manner of giving notice of charity meetings, etc.
34.Manner of executing instruments
35.Transfer and evidence of title to property vested in trustees
36.Miscellaneous provisions as to evidence
37.Parochial charities
38.Repeal of law of mortmain
39.Repeal of obsolete enactments
PART V Supplementary
40.Miscellaneous provisions as to orders of Commissioners or Minister
41.Enforcement of orders of Commissioners or Minister
42.Appeals from Commissioners or Minister
43.Regulations
44.Expenses
45.Construction of references to a " charity " or to particular classes of charity
46.Other definitions
47.Powers of Parliament of Northern Ireland
48.Consequential amendments, general repeal and transitional provisions
49.Short title, extent and commencement
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
Constitution, etc., of Charity Commissioners
1.(1) There shall be a Chief Charity Commissioner, and two...
2.(1) The chief commissioner may, with the approval of the...
3.(1) The Commissioners may use an official seal for the...
4.Legal proceedings may be instituted by or against the Commissioners...
SECOND SCHEDULE
Exempt Charities
THIRD SCHEDULE
Enlargement of Areas of Local Charities
FOURTH SCHEDULE
Court's Jurisdiction over Certain Charities Governed by or under statute
1.The court may by virtue of subsection (3) of section...
2.Notwithstanding anything in section nineteen of the Commons Act, 1876,...
FIFTH SCHEDULE
Enactments Repealed as Obsolete
SIXTH SCHEDULE
Consequential Amendments
SEVENTH SCHEDULE
Enactments Repealed as Superseded
PART I Principal Repeals
PART II Mortmain Repeals