Part 4Registration and names of charities

F12Names and working names

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)

42Power to require name F11or working name to be changed

F21

If one or more of the conditions in subsection (2) are met in relation to the name or a working name of a charity, the Commission may give a direction—

a

requiring the name of the charity to be changed to a name determined by the charity trustees with the approval of the Commission, or

b

requiring that that working name of the charity no longer be used as a working name (as the case may be).

1A

A direction given under this section must specify the period within which the charity is to comply with the direction.

2

F3The conditions are—

a

that the name or working name is the same as, or in the opinion of the Commission too like, the name or a working name of another charity,

b

F6that the name or working name of the charity is in the opinion of the Commission likely to mislead the public as to the true nature of—

i

the purposes of the charity as set out in its trusts, or

ii

the activities which the charity carries on under its trusts in pursuit of those purposes,

c

F4that the name or working name of the charity includes any word or expression for the time being specified in regulations made by the F1Secretary of State and the inclusion in F5the name or working name of that word or expression is in the opinion of the Commission likely to mislead the public in any respect as to the status of the charity,

d

F7that the name or working name is in the opinion of the Commission likely to give the impression that the charity is connected in some way with Her Majesty's Government or any local authority, or with any other body of persons or any individual, when it is not so connected, or

e

F8that the name or working name is in the opinion of the Commission offensive.

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F104

In this Act, any reference to a working name of a charity is a reference to a name that is not the name of the charity but which is used to designate the charity and under which activities of the charity are carried out.

5

Any direction given under this section with respect to a charity must be given to the charity trustees.