Reserve Forces Act 1996 (c. 14)E+W
69(1)In Schedule 5, in paragraph 2, in the definition of “charity”, for “as it has under section 1(1) of the Charities Act 2006” substitute “ as it has under section 1(1) of the Charities Act 2011 ”.E+W
(2)In paragraph 5 of that Schedule, for sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) substitute—
“(2)An application under this paragraph—
(a)may be made at any time within the period of 6 months beginning with the day on which the warrant comes into force; and
(b)is subject to subsections (2) to (5) of section 115 of the Charities Act 2011 (proceedings not to be begun without the consent of the Charity Commission or leave of a judge of the High Court),
and for the purposes of subsection (5) of that section an application for an order of the Commission authorising proceedings under this paragraph is deemed to be refused if it is not granted during the period of one month beginning with the day on which the application is received by the Commission.
(3)In this paragraph “the court” has the same meaning as in the Charities Act 2011.”
(3)For paragraph 6 substitute—
“6In any case where—
(a)the Secretary of State requests the Charity Commission to make provision with respect to any charitable property which is held for the purposes of a unit of a reserve force that has been or is to be disbanded, or
(b)an order is made under paragraph 4 or 5 excluding any charitable property so held from the operation of paragraph 3(1),
the Commission may, regardless of anything in section 70(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (limit on jurisdiction to make schemes etc. for the protection of charities), exercise its jurisdiction under section 69 with respect to the property to which the request or order relates.”