LegalizeThe Exempt Charities Order 2025
Made: 5th February 2025
Coming into force: 6th February 2025
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 5th day of February 2025Present,The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
His Majesty, in pursuance of paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 3 to the Charities Act 2011[^f00001], is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1
This Order may be cited as the Exempt Charities Order 2025 and shall come into force on 6th February 2025.
2
St Mary’s University, Twickenham is hereby declared to be an exempt charity for the purposes of the Charities Act 2011.
Signed
Richard Tilbrook — Clerk of the Privy Council
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Order declares St Mary’s University, Twickenham to be an exempt charity within the meaning of the Charities Act 2011 with effect from 6th February 2025.An exempt charity cannot be registered with the Charity Commission and the Commission cannot exercise any powers under the Act in relation to an exempt charity except:
it may exercise advisory and permissive powers at the charity’s request, following consultation with any principal regulator appointed under the Charities Act 2011;
it may open a statutory inquiry and use powers to act for the protection of charities at the invitation of any principal regulator appointed under the Charities Act.
The Office for Students (OfS) has been appointed principal regulator for exemptHigher Education Providers in England, and automatically becomes principal regulator for St Mary’s University, Twickenham.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 2011 c.25.
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