Charities Act 2006 explained - Stewardship.
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Section 2(2) from the 2006 Act now provides a modern statutory meaning of charity by simply listing 13 descriptions of purposes deemed charitable for law. In order to be charitable, a great organisation should be established for starters or more functions within the information recognised by law because capable penalized charitable, and then for the public gain.
Dear Reader, The advancement of education is one of the most wide-ranging of the descriptions of purposes listed in the Charities Act 2006. It covers charities as diverse as schools and colleges.
The 2011 Act clarifies this by making specific reference to the fact that education charities must explicitly demonstrate public benefit. However, it should be noted that Hackney (2008) has asserted that as the 2011 Act preserves the common law cases in this area, and those cases indicated that public benefit was presumed in education cases, then this presumption has survived the new statute.
Charities Act 2006 'critically flawed' on public benefit, MPs conclude. Public Administration Select Committee report says it has been 'an administrative and financial disaster for the Charity Commission and for the charities involved'.
The Charities Act 2006 had as one of its objectives to 'tighten up the public benefit test'. Whether it has achieved this is debatable. The important section of the act in this regards is s3(2), which abolishes any 'presumption of public' benefit that applied to the first 3 heads of Pemsel before.
The Charities Act 2006 (c 50) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom intended to alter the regulatory framework in which charities operate, partly by amending the Charities Act 1993.The Act was mostly superseded by the Charities Act 2011, which consolidates charity law in the UK.