Charities Act 1993 : Chapter 10.

  • Great Britain
Date:
[1993]
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Charities Act 1993 : Chapter 10. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this purpose; and a document purporting to be such a copy shall be received in evidence without proof of the official position, authority or handwriting of the person certifying it. 94.—(1) No proceedings for an offence under this Act to which this section applies shall be instituted except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (2) This section applies to any offence under— (a) section 55. (b) section 11; (c) section 18(14); (d) section 49; or (e) section 73(1). 95. Where any offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. In relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, “director” means a member of the body corporate. 96.—(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires— “charity” means any institution, corporate or not, which is established for charitable purposes and is subject to the control of the High Court in the exercise of the court’s jurisdiction with respect to charities; “ecclesiastical charity’ has the same meaning as in the -Local Government Act 1894; “exempt charity’ means (subject to section 24(8) above) a charity comprised in Schedule 2 to this Act; “local charity”’ means, in relation to any area, a charity established for purposes which are by their nature or by the trusts of the charity directed wholly or mainly to the benefit of that area or of part of it; “parochial charity” means, in relation to any parish or (in Wales) community, a charity the benefits of which are, or the separate distribution of the benefits of which is, confined to inhabitants of the parish or community, or of a single ancient ecclesiastical parish which included that parish or community or part of it, or of an area consisting of that parish or community with not more than four neighbouring parishes or communities. (2) The expression “charity”’ is not in this Act applicable— (a) to any ecclesiastical corporation (that is to say, any corporation in the Church of England, whether sole or aggregate, which is established for spiritual purposes) in respect of the corporate PART X Restriction on institution of proceedings for certain offences. Offences by bodies corporate. Construction of references to a “charity” or to particular classes of charity. 1894 c. 73.
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