Implementation dates for Charities Act announced
Howard Lake | 6 December 2006 | News
The Office of the Third Sector has announced the proposed timetable for the implementation of the Charities Act 2006. Voluntary sector legal and governance trainer Sandy Adirondack has published a straightforward guide to the changes and their timescale.
The Act will come into effect in three stages – early 2007, the second half of 2007, and early 2008.
In terms of fundraising, the changes to charitable collections in a public place, notably the need for a public collections certificate issued by the Charity Commission and a permit from the relevant local authority, will not come into force before 2009.
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The new requirements for professional fundraisers and commercial participators will come into force in the second half of 2007. Adirondack reports that “professional fundraisers will have to state the amount of remuneration they are receiving in connection with an appeal, and how the remuneration is determined. If that amount is not known at the time of the appeal, they will have to give as accurate an estimate as possible.”
Similarly, “commercial participators will have to state the amount (or estimate, if the amount is not known at the time) from their charitable promotion that will be given to charities or used for charitable purposes.”
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