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Charitable Trusts Act 1957

Incorporation of trust boards

26A: Registrar may inquire whether board still carrying on operations

You could also call this:

“Registrar can check if a board is still active”

The Registrar can check if a board is still working by sending a letter to the board’s office. If the board doesn’t answer within 6 months, or if the letter comes back because it couldn’t be delivered, the Registrar can decide that the board isn’t working anymore. This is just one way the Registrar can check. They can also use other ways to find out if the board has stopped working.

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Part 2 Incorporation of trust boards

26ARegistrar may inquire whether board still carrying on operations

  1. It is sufficient to satisfy the Registrar, for the purposes of section 26(1), that a board is no longer carrying on its operations if—

  2. the Registrar sends a registered letter to the board, addressed to the board at its registered office, inquiring whether it is still carrying on its operations; and
    1. either—
      1. the Registrar does not receive a reply to the registered letter within 6 months after the date that the letter is posted; or
        1. the letter is not delivered and is returned to the Registrar.

        2. Nothing in this section prevents the Registrar from satisfying himself or herself in any other manner that the board is no longer carrying on its operations.

        Notes
        • Section 26A: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Charitable Trusts Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 51).