OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE

EXEMPT CHARITIES

OUR POWERS IN RELATION TO EXEMPT CHARITIES

OG 57 C5-01 March 2000

Divisional responsibility

For action:

Charity Support Division
Investigation Division

For information:

Registration Division
Charity Database Division

Meaning of expressions - list of Glossary terms used in this Guidance
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• s.16: make Schemes both for:

• the application of property cy-près; and

• the administration of a charity;

• ss.16 and 21: make Orders to vest land in the Official Custodian for Charities;

(NB: we cannot make Schemes under s.16(6)) ( see OG 57 C4)

• s.17: settle Schemes for charities governed by Act of Parliament;

• s17: make Schemes to establish common investment funds;

• s.24: make Schemes to establish common deposit funds;

• s.26: make Orders to sanction actions which are in the interests of the charity but not within the trustees' existing powers;

• s.27: authorise ex-gratia payments;

• s.29: provide advice

• s.30: accept documents for safe keeping;

• s.31: order taxation of solicitors' bills;

• s.32: take legal proceedings with reference to a charity or its property or affairs;

• ss.50, 56, 58 and 61: grant, amend, enforce and dissolve, certificates of incorporation of trustees where appropriate;

• ss.63-69: take certain action in relation to charitable companies;

• s.72: waive the disqualification of a trustee.

The following words and phrases are defined in the Glossary of Terms:

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the trustees

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