Charities Regulations 2025 (Vic)

Version No. 001

Charities Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 115/2025

Version as at

17 November 2025

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provision

3Commencement

4Revocation

5Definition

6Fees for application for directions to apply property cy près

7Fees for application for approval that Part IA of the Act applies—approval for investment in common funds

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Endnotes

1     General information

2     Table of Amendments

3     Explanatory details

Version No. 001

Charities Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 115/2025

Version as at

17 November 2025

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe fees for the purposes of the Charities Act 1978.

2Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 7 of the Charities Act 1978.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 17 November 2025.

4Revocation

The Charities Regulations 2015[1] are revoked.

5Definition

In these Regulations—

the Act means the Charities Act 1978.

6Fees for application for directions to apply property cy près

For the purposes of section 4(1) of the Act, the relevant prescribed fee is—

(a)if the total value of the corpus of the property is less than $30 000—$320; or

(b)if the total value of the corpus of the property is $30 000 or more but less than $130 000—$770; or

(c)if the total value of the corpus of the property is $130 000 or more—$970.

7Fees for application for approval that Part IA of the Act applies—approval for investment in common funds

For the purposes of section 7F(2)(c) of the Act, the relevant prescribed fee is—

(a)if the total value of the corpus of the property is less than $30 000—$320; or

(b)if the total value of the corpus of the property is $30 000 or more but less than $130 000—$770; or

(c)if the total value of the corpus of the property is $130 000 or more—$970.

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ENDNOTES

1   General information

See for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

The Charities Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 115/2025 were made on 5 November 2025 by the Governor in Council under section 7 of the Charities Act 1978, No. 9227/1978 and came into operation on 17 November 2025: regulation 3.

The Charities Regulations 2025 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 5 November 2035 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

•     Headings

All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. 
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).

•     Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3A).

•     Punctuation

All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule.  Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).

•     Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001.  Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs.  See section 36(3C).

•     Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note.  As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision.  For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision.  See section 36B.

•     Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

2   Table of Amendments

There are no amendments made to the Charities Regulations 2025 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.

3   Explanatory details

[1] Reg. 4: S.R. No. 131/2015.