Autumn for final stages of Charities Bill
17th July 2006, 1:50 pm
The Committee stage for the Charities Bill progress in the House of Commons ended last Thursday (13th July). Read the Hansard record of the eight sittings.
To quote the Office of the Third Sector email update:
A number of amendments were made to the Bill in Committee, though none of them changed the Bill in any fundamental way. A new version of the Bill, as amended in Committee, will appear shortly.
The next stage in the Parliamentary process will be Report stage in the House of Commons. There will not be time to fit this in before Parliament’s summer break, which is due to start on 25 July and to run until 9 October. We therefore expect Report stage to take place in October and the remaining brief stages after that to be completed before the end of this Parliamentary session in November.
OTS also says that “the new Act will not take effect immediately after it has been passed by Parliament in November. Instead we will bring the various parts of it into force in sequence starting about two months after it has been passed by Parliament. The whole process of implementation is likely to take 18-24 months.” More details in October.