http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/146Charities 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 Database2026-05-28Expert Participation2022-03-30 PART 13 CHAPTER 11461Where subsection (2), (3) or (4) applies, the Commission may—awithdraw the permit,battach any condition (or further condition) to the permit, orcvary any existing condition of the permit.2This subsection applies where the Commission—ahas reason to believe that there has been a change in the circumstances which prevailed at the time when it issued the permit, andbis of the opinion that, if the application for the permit had been made in the new circumstances, the Commission would not have issued the permit or would have issued it subject to different or additional conditions.3This subsection applies where the Commission has reason to believe that any information provided to it by the holder of a permit (or, where there is more than one holder, by any of them) for the purposes of the application for the permit was false or misleading in a material particular.4This subsection applies where the Commission has reason to believe that there has been or is likely to be a breach of any condition of a permit issued by it, or that a breach of such a condition is continuing.5Any condition imposed at any time by the Commission under subsection (1) (whether by attaching a new condition to the permit or by varying an existing condition) must be one that it would be appropriate for the Commission to attach to the permit under section 144(3) if the holder was applying for it in the circumstances prevailing at that time.6The exercise by the Commission of the power conferred by paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection (1) on one occasion does not prevent the Commission from exercising any of the powers conferred by that paragraph on a subsequent occasion; and on any subsequent occasion the reference in subsection (2)(a) to the time when the Commission issued the permit is a reference to the time when it last exercised any of those powers.7Where under this section the Commission—awithdraws a permit,battaches a condition to a permit, orcvaries an existing condition of a permit,the Commission shall serve on the holder written notice of its decision and the reasons for its decision.8That notice shall also state the right of appeal conferred by section 147(3) and the time within which such an appeal must be brought.9Where the Commission under this section withdraws a permit, attaches any condition to a permit, or varies an existing condition of a permit, the permit shall continue to have effect as if it had not been withdrawn or (as the case may be) as if the condition had not been attached or varied—auntil the time for bringing an appeal under section 147(3) has expired, orbif such an appeal is duly brought, until the determination or abandonment of the appeal.