http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/143Charities 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 11431A person or persons proposing to promote a public charitable collection (other than an exempt collection) may apply to the Commission for a permit to conduct that collection.2The application shall be made within the prescribed period falling before the day (or the first of the days) on which the collection is to take place, except as provided in subsection (4).3The application shall—aspecify the date or dates in respect of which it is desired that the permit, if issued, should have effect (which, in the case of two or more dates, must not span a period of more than 12 months);bbe accompanied by a copy of the public collections certificate in force under section 138 in respect of the proposed collection; andccontain such information as may be prescribed.4Where an application (“the certificate application”) has been made in accordance with section 137 for a public collections certificate in respect of the collection and either—athe certificate application has not been determined by the end of the period mentioned in subsection (2), orbthe certificate application has been determined by the issue of such a certificate but at a time when there is insufficient time remaining for the application mentioned in subsection (2) (“the permit application”) to be made by the end of that period,the permit application shall be made as early as practicable before the day (or the first of the days) on which the collection is to take place.5In this section “exempt collection” means a collection which is an exempt collection by virtue of section 136.