The Exempt Charities Order 2023

Statutory Instruments

2023 No. 659

Charities

The Exempt Charities Order 2023

Made

14th June 2023

Coming into force

15th June 2023

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of June 2023

Present,

The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

His Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 3 to the Charities Act 2011(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Exempt Charities Order 2023 and shall come into force on 15th June 2023.

2.  AECC University College is hereby declared to be an exempt charity for the purposes of the Charities Act 2011.

Richard Tilbrook

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order declares AECC University College to be an exempt charity within the meaning of the Charities Act 2011 with effect from 15th June 2023. An exempt charity cannot be registered with the Charity Commission and the Commission cannot exercise any powers under the Act in relation to an exempt charity except:

i)

it may exercise advisory and permissive powers at the charity’s request, following consultation with any principal regulator appointed under the Charities Act 2011;

ii)

it may open a statutory inquiry and use powers to act for the protection of charities at the invitation of any principal regulator appointed under the Charities Act.

The Office for Students (OfS) has been appointed principal regulator for exempt Higher Education Providers in England, and automatically becomes principal regulator for AECC University College.

(1)

2011 c.25.