# Charity Commission launches Register of Mergers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/11/28/charity-commission-launches-register-mergers/
- Published: 2007-11-28T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Charity Commission has begun a Register of Mergers to list and record charities
which have merged with each other, one of the requirements of the Charities Act 
2006.
One of the advantages of the new Register is a simpler process for receiving
legacies made out to a charity that has merged with another. Previously merged charities
often had to maintain a ‘shell’ charity to carry on receiving legacies and gifts
given in its old name, or come to the Commission to make a legal scheme to enable
gifts to pass to the successor charity.

Now such gifts wiill transfer automatically to the successor charity created by 
the merger, provided the merger has been registered with the Commission.

The online Register will show:

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* The names and registered numbers of the transferor and transferee charities;

* the date the merger was registered with the Commission;

* the date or dates when the transfer or transfers of property involved took place;

* the details of any vesting declaration that was made in connection with the merger.

The Commission’s Chief Executive, Andrew Hind, said: “The Register of Mergers will
free charities from the cost and effort of maintaining shell charities and, with
time, provide an accessible and valuable record of mergers in the sector.”

The Register and the forms through which merging charities apply for registration
are available from the Charity Commission’s website.

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