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63—(1) The charity trustees of a charity shall ensure that accounting records are kept in respect of the charity which are sufficient to show and explain all the charity's transactions, and which are such as to—
(a)disclose at any time, with reasonable accuracy, the financial position of the charity at that time, and
(b)enable the trustees to ensure that, where any statements of accounts are prepared by them under section 64(1), those statements of accounts comply with the requirements of regulations under that provision.
(2) The accounting records shall in particular contain—
(a)entries showing from day to day all sums of money received and expended by the charity, and the matters in respect of which the receipt and expenditure takes place; and
(b)a record of the assets and liabilities of the charity.
(3) The charity trustees of a charity shall preserve any accounting records made for the purposes of this section in respect of the charity for at least 6 years from the end of the financial year of the charity in which they are made.
(4) Where a charity ceases to exist within the period of 6 years mentioned in subsection (3) as it applies to any accounting records, the obligation to preserve those records in accordance with that subsection shall continue to be discharged by the last charity trustees of the charity, unless the Commission consents in writing to the records being destroyed or otherwise disposed of.
(5) Nothing in this section applies to a charity which is a company.
Commencement Information
I1S. 63 in operation at 1.1.2016 by S.R. 2015/383, art. 2(3), Sch.
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