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Draft Charities Bill published

Howard Lake | 26 May 2004 | News

The long-awaited draft Charities Bill has been published.

The draft contains “proposals to boost public confidence in charities, help
new and existing charities to work effectively, ensure that donations are used
properly and abuses are dealt with quickly and firmly”.

Measures included in the draft Bill are:

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It is available in four sections, all published as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

The Charity Commission were quick to welcome its publication. The Chief Charity Commissioner, John Stoker, said: “The proposals in the draft Bill provide practical benefits for virtually every charity, and contain a welcome definition of the Commission’s future role and responsibilities. It’s a good balanced
package of changes which help to clarify what’s charitable while keeping the common law flexibility which allows this diverse sector to develop. From our perspective, this is a win-win result which will
keep the charity brand at the heart of our society”.

Indeed the Charity Commission has dedicated the whole of its May 2004 issue of Charity Commission News to analysis of the draft Bill.

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