# Implementation dates for Charities Act announced

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/12/06/implementation-dates-charities-act-announced/
- Published: 2006-12-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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.”

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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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