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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

Reference

CHAR 18

Title
Charity Commission: Registration Division: Charitable Status Index
Date

1961-1981

Description

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.

Related material

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

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Charity Commission, General Division, 1961-1961
Physical description

2 volume(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

in 2009 Charity Commission

Subjects
Topics
Charities
Accumulation dates

File series ran from 1961 to 1981

Accruals

No further accruals are expected.

Selection and destruction information

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.

Administrative / biographical background

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.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15778/

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Charity Commission: Registration Division: Charitable Status Index

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