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Charitable Trusts Act 1957

Incorporation of trust boards

12: Evidence of incorporation

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“How to show a board is officially registered”

When the Registrar gives a board a certificate of incorporation with their official seal, it serves as strong proof that the board was incorporated on the date shown on the certificate. It also shows that all the required steps were followed correctly. However, this certificate doesn’t prove that the trust or society’s purposes are only or mainly for charity. You can trust this certificate unless someone can prove it’s wrong.

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Part 2 Incorporation of trust boards

12Evidence of incorporation

  1. Every certificate of incorporation issued under the seal of the Registrar shall be sufficient evidence, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that the board therein named was incorporated on the date specified in the certificate, and that the procedural requirements of this Part have been observed, but shall not be evidence that the purposes of the trust or society are exclusively or principally charitable.

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