Part 11

Charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs)
CHAPTER 2

Powers, capacity and procedure etc.

Limits to s.218
219
1
Nothing in section 218 prevents a person from bringing proceedings to restrain the doing of an act which would be—
a
beyond the CIO's constitutional capacity, or
b
beyond the constitutional powers of the CIO's charity trustees.
2
But no such proceedings may be brought in respect of an act to be done in fulfilment of a legal obligation arising from a previous act of the CIO.
3
Subsection (2) does not prevent the Commission from exercising any of its powers.
4
Nothing in section 218(2) affects any liability incurred by the CIO's charity trustees (or any one of them) for acting beyond their (or that charity trustee's) constitutional powers.
5
Nothing in section 218 absolves the CIO's charity trustees from their duty to act within the CIO's constitution and in accordance with any constitutional limitations on their powers.