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Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
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Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
2022-03-10
Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
2020-01-13
Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
2018-04-06
Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
2016-04-01
Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
2016-03-01
Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
2016-01-01
Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
2015-12-07
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2015-11-28
Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
2015-10-26
Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
Changes on 2015-10-26
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## SCHEDULE 9
#### Meaning of “charity”
#### The public benefit requirement
#### The Charity Tribunal for Northern Ireland
#### Register of charities
#### General power to institute inquiries
#### Meaning of “charitable purpose”
#### Guidance as to operation of public benefit requirement
#### Practice and procedure
#### Duties of trustees in connection with registration
#### Power to call for documents and search records
#### Effect of direction under section 20 where charity is a company
#### Power to determine membership of charity
#### Powers for preservation of charity documents
#### Restriction on dispositions
#### Supplementary provisions relating to dispositions
#### Release of charity rentcharges
#### Powers for preservation of charity documents
#### Restriction on dispositions
#### Power to relieve trustees, auditors, etc. from liability for breach of trust or duty
#### Court's power to grant relief to apply to all auditors, etc. of charities which are not companies
#### Remuneration of trustees, etc. providing services to charity
#### Nature and constitution
#### Constitution
#### Conversion: consideration of application
#### Constitution
#### Power to transfer all property of unincorporated charity
#### Resolution not to take effect or to take effect at later date
#### Conversion: consideration of application
#### Power to spend capital subject to special trusts
#### Regulation of public charitable collections
#### Determination of applications and issue of permits
#### Cancellation of payments and agreements made in response to appeals
#### Charitable appeals that are not public charitable collections
#### Refusal of permits
#### Right of charitable institution to prevent unauthorised fund-raising
#### Applications for certificates
#### Register of charity mergers
#### Register of charity mergers: supplementary
#### Short title
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[^key-cd82462a2ffe564a4745ad9e70c13653]: Words in [s. 46(3)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/46/3) substituted (19.1.2013) by [Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 (c. 3)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2013/3), [s. 10(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2013/3/section/10/1), [Sch. 1 para. 12(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2013/3/schedule/1/paragraph/12/2)
[^key-d01975fd3ec223f8e461b17f0ed217dc]: [S. 65(10)(b)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/65/10/b) in operation at 26.10.2015 for specified purposes by [S.R. 2015/361](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/361), [art. 2](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/361/article/2)
[^key-d0d73d37e4d0c6b5c90599668f348c79]: [S. 100](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/100) in operation at 24.6.2013 by [S.R. 2013/145](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/145), [art. 2](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/145/article/2), [Sch.](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/145/schedule)
[^key-d385639f06954beed66cad59cd5a4e0b]: Words in [s. 46(3)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/46/3) substituted (19.1.2013) by [Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 (c. 3)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2013/3), [s. 10(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2013/3/section/10/1), [Sch. 1 para. 12(3)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2013/3/schedule/1/paragraph/12/3)
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[^key-920788b7c767e0fdc05ae52855739665]: [S. 72](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2008/12/section/72) in operation at 28.11.2015 for specified purposes by [S.R. 2015/383](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/383), [art. 2(2)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/383/article/2/2)
#### Occasions for applying property cy-près
#### Application cy-près of gifts of donors unknown or disclaiming
##### 29A
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any gift dependent upon the prior gift shall have the like effect as it would have had if the prior gift had at all times been for the purposes determined by that scheme.
#### Power to suspend or remove trustees, etc. from membership of charity
#### Incorporation of trustees of a charity
#### Person acting as charity trustee while disqualified
#### Winding up
#### Effect of registration
#### Conversion: supplementary
#### Exemption for local, short-term collections
#### Prohibition on professional fund-raiser, etc. raising funds for charitable institution without an agreement in prescribed form
#### Supplementary provisions relating to interim manager appointed for a charity
#### Estate to vest in body corporate
#### Remuneration of trustees, etc. providing services to charity
#### Alteration of objects ...
#### Conversion of charitable company or registered society
#### Conversion of community interest company
#### Applications for certificates
#### Professional fund-raisers, etc. required to indicate institutions benefiting and arrangements for remuneration
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2013-06-24
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2013-01-19
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2012-03-14
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2011-02-18
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2010-04-12
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2010-04-01
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2009-09-25
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2009-03-27
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2008-09-09
Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008
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