http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/137Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008An Act to provide for the establishment and functions of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland and the Charity Tribunal for Northern Ireland; to make provision about the law of charities, including provision about charitable incorporated organisations; to make further provision about public charitable collections and other fund-raising carried on in connection with charities and other institutions; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-01-29Expert Participation2022-03-30 PART 13 CHAPTER 11371A person or persons proposing to promote public charitable collections (other than exempt collections) may apply to the Commission for a public collections certificate in respect of those collections.2The application shall be made—awithin the specified period falling before the first of the collections is to commence, orbbefore such later date as the Commission may allow in the case of that application.3The application shall—abe made in such form as may be specified,bstate the period for which the certificate is sought (which must be no more than 5 years), andccontain such other information as may be specified.4An application under this section may be made for a public collections certificate in respect of a single collection; and the references in this Chapter, in the context of such certificates, to public charitable collections are to be read accordingly.5In subsections (2) and (3) “specified” means specified in regulations made by the Commission after consulting such persons or bodies of persons as it considers appropriate.6In this section “exempt collection” means a public charitable collection which is an exempt collection by virtue of section 136.