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Charities Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 36:"Page 102, line 32, after ““2005,”” insert—" ““(   )   any other enactment specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State,”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, this amendment is about the new schedule to the Bill—Schedule 1D. It allows the Charity Commission to refer matters to the Charity Tribunal which have arisen in connection with the exercise by the commission of any of its functions and involve the operation of charity law or the application of charity law to a particular state of affairs. The Attorney-General may refer to the tribunal matters which involve the operation of charity law or the application of charity law to a particular state of affairs. There is a definition in the Bill of what ““charity law”” means in this context. It is any enactment contained in or made under the Act which this Bill will become, the Charities Act 1993 or any rule of law which relates to charities. The amendment allows the Secretary of State to specify additional enactments which come within the meaning of ““charity law”” for the purposes of references to the tribunal. We think that it is possible that it might become desirable for the tribunal to consider matters of charity law contained in enactments other than those contained in or made under the Act that this Bill will become and the 1993 Act. This power gives sufficient flexibility to enable the tribunal to grow and develop according to need and avoids the necessity of having a comprehensive list of enactments set out in the Bill. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to. Schedule 6 [Group Accounts]: