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June–September 2018

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2019

Frank Cranmer
Frank Cranmer*
Affiliation:
Fellow,St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University
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The Charity Commission for England and Wales published an updated list of the questions to be included in the 2018 Annual Return for registered charities. The trustees of charities excepted from registration with the Commission – which include a considerable number of church congregations – are not required to submit an annual return; but an increasing number find that they must do so because when an excepted charity's annual income exceeds £100,000 it loses its excepted status. The previously expressed intention to require every charity trustee to provide an e-mail address has been abandoned; instead, the Commission intends to ask all trustees either to supply an e-mail address or to confirm that they do not have one – which looks very like a welcome climbdown. The Commission's on-line Annual Return Service opened for submissions on 20 August.

Type
Government and Parliamentary Report
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 72 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2019 

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References

1 The updated guidance is available at <https://www.gov.uk/guidance/automatic-disqualification-rules-for-charity-trustees-and-charity-senior-positions?utm_source=c2d42486-7dc4-4714-9d26-22dfb9f9ba04&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate>, accessed 15 September 2018.

2 Harry Farley, ‘Worried Church of England urges ministers against scrapping civil partnerships’, Christian Today, 17 May 2018.

3 Available at <https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lawcom-prod-storage-11jsxou24uy7q/uploads/2018/08/Electronic-execution-of-documents-consultation-paper.pdf>, accessed 15 September 2018.

4 On Twitter, available at <https://twitter.com/JoshuaRozenberg/status/1031812890217639936>, accessed 15 September 2018.

5 Available at <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/721725/GRA-Consultation-document.pdf>, accessed 15 September 2018. The Scottish Government ran a separate consultation, which closed earlier in the year.

6 [2017] NIQB 55.

7 In Smyth, Re Judicial Review [2018] NICA 25. See my case note in this issue, p 000.

8 Available at <https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/reform-of-the-legal-requirements-for-divorce/supporting_documents/reducingfamilyconflictconsultation.pdf>, accessed 15 September 2018.

9 [2018] UKSC 41.