http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/148Charities 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 11481The Department may make regulations—aprescribing the matters which the Commission is to take into account in determining whether a collection is local in character for the purposes of section 136(2)(a);bfor the purpose of regulating the conduct of public charitable collections;cprescribing anything falling to be prescribed by virtue of any provision of this Chapter.2The matters which may be prescribed by regulations under subsection (1)(a) include—athe extent of the area within which the appeal is to be conducted;bwhether the appeal forms part of a series of appeals;cthe number of collectors making the appeal and whether they are acting for remuneration or otherwise;dthe financial resources (of any description) of any charitable institution for whose benefit the appeal is to be conducted;ewhere the promoters live or have any place of business.3Regulations under subsection (1)(b) may make provision—aabout the keeping and publication of accounts;bfor the prevention of annoyance to members of the public;cwith respect to the use by collectors of badges and certificates of authority, or badges incorporating such certificates, including, in particular, provision—iprescribing the form of such badges and certificates;iirequiring a collector, on request, to permit a badge, or any certificate of authority held by the collector of the purposes of the collection, to be inspected by a constable or a duly authorised officer of the Commission, or by an occupier of any premises visited by the collector in the course of the collection;dfor prohibiting persons under a prescribed age from acting as collectors, and prohibiting others from causing them so to act.4Nothing in subsection (2) or (3) prejudices the generality of subsection (1)(a) or (b).5Regulations under this section may provide that any failure to comply with a specified provision of the regulations is to be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.6Before making regulations under this section the Department must consult such persons or bodies of persons as it considers appropriate.