The Exempt Charities Order 2019

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 586

Charities

The Exempt Charities Order 2019

Made

13th March 2019

Coming into force

14th March 2019

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of March 2019

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 3 to the Charities Act 2011(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Exempt Charities Order 2019 and shall come into force on 14th March 2019.

2.  The Royal Agricultural University is hereby declared to be an exempt charity for the purposes of the Charities Act 2011.

Richard Tilbrook

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order declares The Royal Agricultural University to be an exempt charity within the meaning of the Charities Act 2011 with effect from 14th March 2019. An exempt charity cannot be registered with the Charity Commission and the Commission cannot exercise any powers under the Act in relation to an exempt charity except:

i) it may exercise advisory and permissive powers at the charity’s request, following consultation with any principal regulator appointed under the Charities Act 2011;

ii) it may open a statutory inquiry and use powers to act for the protection of charities at the invitation of any principal regulator appointed under the Charities Act.

The Office for Students (OfS) has been appointed principal regulator for exempt universities and Higher Education Institutions in England, and automatically becomes principal regulator for The Royal Agricultural University.

(1)

2011 c.25.