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Series
Charity Commission: Registration Division: Charitable Status Index
Catalogue reference: CHAR 18
What's it about?
CHAR 18
This series contains an index to charitable status rejections, by date of decision of the Board and with references to the Board paper serial numbers.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CHAR 18
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission: Registration Division: Charitable Status Index
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1961-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains an index to charitable status rejections, by date of decision of the Board and with references to the Board paper serial numbers.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Formal determinations of registration issues by the Board of Commissioners are in:
Selected cases which had been rejected by the Commissioners at some time, are in CHAR 17
Registration procedures are explained in CHAR 11/91 CHAR 9 CHAR 10
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Charity Commission, General Division, 1961-1961
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2009 Charity Commission
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Charities
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1961 to 1981
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This series relates to section 2.2.2.1 of TNA's Aquisition Policy (the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK). Complete index has been selected.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Under section 4 of the Charities Act 1960, the Charity Commission was required to retain a register of all charities in England and Wales unless exempt under Schedule 2 of the same Act or by orders or regulations. As well as entering any qualifying organisation, the Commission has a duty to remove any organisation that ceases to operate or appears not to be a charity. Registration is regarded as a proof of charitable status of all purposes.
The Charity Commission inherited the function of determining charitable status from the Commissioners of Inland Revenue. Its decisions in this area can be appealed against in the High Court.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15778/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: CHAR
Records of the Charity Commissioners and Charity Commission
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Charity Commission: Registration Division: Charitable Status Index
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