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<Pnumber><CommentaryRef Ref="key-8caab767f7f3cba667580ee221601ee6"/><CommentaryRef Ref="key-e042107a1dc6361561d57a201860336d"/>36</Pnumber>
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<Text>After section 324 of the Charities Act 2011 insert—</Text>
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<Title>Power to authorise costs to be incurred in relation to proceedings</Title>
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<Pnumber>324A</Pnumber>
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<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
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<Text>The Tribunal may make an authorised costs order on the application of a charity or charity trustees of a charity.</Text>
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<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
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<Text>An authorised costs order is an order—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>made in respect of proceedings brought, or proposed to be brought, before the Tribunal or on appeal from it, and</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>authorising payment out of the funds of the charity of costs falling within subsection (3).</Text>
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<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
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<Text>Those costs are costs incurred, or to be incurred, in connection with the proceedings—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>by the charity,</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>by its charity trustees, or</Text>
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<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
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<Text>by any other person, so far as the charity or its charity trustees are ordered by the Tribunal or the court hearing the appeal to bear them.</Text>
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