ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

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1. Part I

   The Charity Commissioners and the Official Custodian for Charities

   1. 1. The Charity Commissioners.

   2. 2. The official custodian for charities.

2. Part II

   Registration and Names of Charities

   1. Registration of charities

      1. 3. The register of charities.

      2. 4. Effect of, and claims and objections to, registration.

      3. 5. Status of registered charity (other than small charity) to appear on official publications etc.

   2. Charity names

      1. 6. Power of Commissioners to require charity´s name to be changed.

      2. 7. Effect of direction under s. 6 where charity is a company.

3. Part III

   Commissioners' Information Powers

   1. 8. General power to institute inquiries.

   2. 9. Power to call for documents and search records.

   3. 10. Disclosure of information to and by Commissioners.

   4. 11. Supply of false or misleading information to Commissioners, etc.

   5. 12. Data protection.

4. Part IV

   Application of Property Cy-près and Assistance and Supervision of Charities by Court and Commissioners

   1. Extended powers of court and variation of charters

      1. 13. Occasions for applying property cy-près.

      2. 14. Application cy-près of gifts of donors unknown or disclaiming.

      3. 15. Charities governed by charter, or by or under statute.

   2. Powers of Commissioners to make schemes and act for protection of charities etc.

      1. 16. Concurrent jurisdiction with High Court for certain purposes.

      2. 17. Further powers to make schemes or alter application of charitable property.

      3. 18. Power to act for protection of charities.

      4. 19. Supplementary provisions relating to receiver and manager appointed for a charity.

      5. 20. Publicity for proceedings under ss. 16 to 18.

   3. Property vested in official custodian

      1. 21. Entrusting charity property to official custodian, and termination of trust.

      2. 22. Supplementary provisions as to property vested in official custodian.

      3. 23. Divestment in the case of land subject to Reverter of Sites Act 1987.

   4. Establishment of common investment or deposit funds

      1. 24. Schemes to establish common investment funds.

      2. 25. Schemes to establish common deposit funds.

   5. Additional powers of Commissioners

      1. 26. Power to authorise dealings with charity property etc.

      2. 27. Power to authorise ex gratia payments etc.

      3. 28. Power to give directions about dormant bank accounts of charities.

      4. 29. Power to advise charity trustees.

      5. 30. Powers for preservation of charity documents.

      6. 31. Power to order taxation of solicitor´s bill.

   6. Legal proceedings relating to charities

      1. 32. Proceedings by Commissioners.

      2. 33. Proceedings by other persons.

      3. 34. Report of s. 8 inquiry to be evidence in certain proceedings.

   7. Meaning of "trust corporation"

      1. 35. Application of provisions to trust corporations appointed under s. 16 or 18.

5. Part V

   Charity Land

   1. 36. Restrictions on dispositions.

   2. 37. Supplementary provisions relating to dispositions.

   3. 38. Restrictions on mortgaging.

   4. 39. Supplementary provisions relating to mortgaging.

   5. 40. Release of charity rentcharges.

6. Part VI

   Charity Accounts, Reports and Returns

   1. 41. Duty to keep accounting records.

   2. 42. Annual statements of accounts.

   3. 43. Annual audit or examination of charity accounts.

   4. 44. Supplementary provisions relating to audits etc.

   5. 45. Annual reports.

   6. 46. Special provision as respects accounts and annual reports of exempt and other excepted charities.

   7. 47. Public inspection of annual reports etc.

   8. 48. Annual…