PRACTICE NOTES
FORTHCOMING CHANGE:
The Charities Act 2022 (CA 2022) obtained Royal Assent on 24 February 2022 and will be introduced largely in stages from October 2022 through to early 2024. CA 2022 gives effect to the bulk of the recommendations in the Law Commission’s 2017 report, ‘Technical Issues in Charity Law’. For a synopsis of the accepted recommendations, see News Analysis: Government response to Law Commission report ‘Technical Issues in Charity Law’. For additional guidance on the roll-out of CA 2022, see News Analyses: Charities Act 2022—what do we know so far?, Charity land disposals—new law is coming into force, and government guidance: Charities Act 2022: implementation plan. Of particular importance to this Practice Note are the amendments relating to the following:
disposals of land by liquidators, provisional liquidators, administrators, receivers and mortgagees, which are to be excluded from Part 7 of the
Restructuring & Insolvency