http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/145Charities 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 11451The only ground on which the Commission may refuse an application for a permit to conduct a public charitable collection is that it appears to the Commission that the collection would cause undue inconvenience to members of the public or the occupants of houses or business premises (or both) by reason of—athe day or the week or date on or in which,bthe time at which,cthe frequency with which, ordthe locality or localities in which,it is proposed to be conducted.2In making a decision under subsection (1), the Commission may have regard to the fact (where it is the case) that the collection is proposed to be conducted—awholly or partly in a locality in which another public charitable collection is already authorised to be conducted under this Chapter, andbon a day on which that other collection is already so authorised, or on the day falling immediately before, or immediately after, any such day.3The Commission shall not, however, have regard to the matters mentioned in subsection (2) if it appears to the Commission—athat the proposed collection would be a collection in a public place and would be conducted only in one location, which is on land to which members of the public would have access only—iby virtue of the express or implied permission of the occupier of the land, oriiby virtue of any statutory provision, andbthat the occupier of the land consents to that collection being conducted there;and for this purpose “the occupier”, in relation to unoccupied land, means the person entitled to occupy it.4In subsection (3) a reference to a collection in a public place authorised under this Chapter is a reference to a collection in a public place that—ais conducted in accordance with section 134, orbis an exempt collection by virtue of section 136.