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Trustees Verify who the present charity trustees are. Examine historic appointment and retirement deeds to validate earlier changes to the board. Consider whether any current trustees have obvious conflicts of interest. Trust instrument Review the trust instrument and identify the powers it grants. Record any express limits on exercising those powers. Note whether any of the charity’s land is functional, designated, or held in specie. Land and leases Identify the charity’s property holdings and carry out the following checks: Confirm that title to all land is current, checking whether required deeds or transfers were executed after trustee changes, or reliance is placed on statutory vesting; verify proper execution of all documents. Confirm that appropriate restrictions have been entered on the title register. Confirm, so far as possible, that the land was duly authorised on acquisition, and review every lease where the charity is landlord or tenant; note any onerous obligations, and check whether required notices were served after...

In this issue: Research and development Medical devices Disputes and regulatory enforcement Competition in life sciences Pharmaceuticals—regulatory framework Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information Research and development Council of EU approves EU AI Act The Council of the EU has signed off the EU AI Act. Once endorsed by the presidents of the Council and the European Parliament, the law will appear in the Official Journal of the EU and take effect 20 days later. Most rules will start to apply two years after entry into force, with certain provisions operating on a different timetable. See: LNB News 21/05/2024 9. DSIT publishes international scientific report on advanced AI safety The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has issued the interim International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI), commissioned at the Bletchey Park AI Safety Summit in November 2023. Bringing together a...

After a famously gruelling final bout of political bargaining in December, the EU’s AI Act cleared its last hurdle, acclaimed as a flagship victory for a Union long eager to cement its role as the global leader on digital regulation. The text is slated for publication in the EU’s Official Journal next month, with entry into effect 20 days thereafter, in August 2024. Attention has therefore shifted firmly to implementation—particularly to the often opaque, highly specialised, somewhat arcane sphere of technical standards. Such standards are granular, detailed sets of technical specifications that help industry demonstrate technical conformity with legislation. They have long served to harmonise technical and safety requirements. Once largely unnoticed, standards have now taken on clear strategic significance. The landscape is also unsettled, as a recent EU court judgment could fundamentally reshape the very basis on which standards organisations operate. Delays On the AI Act, the European Commission dispatched a “standardisation request” in May 2023—well ahead of the law’s conclusion—to the two closely linked European standardisation...

In this issue Key developments UK immigration control: how it works Sponsored work Work sponsorship: sponsors EU law rights and EU Settlement Scheme Preventing illegal working Citizenship applications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments Future developments—Immigration calendar Our Immigration calendar highlights key forthcoming developments for business immigration advisers. UK immigration control: how it works Visa applicants in the USA can no longer use ASCs from 15 July 2025 The Home Office has revised its guidance on Applying for a UK visa in the USA. From 15 July 2025, applicants seeking UK entry clearance in the USA will be unable to book biometric appointments at US Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Application Support Centres (ASCs). Instead, biometrics must be provided at a limited network of VFS Global (VFS) visa application centres (VACs) in the USA. Some locations operate as premium centres and attract higher fees. Those who secured...

The Immigration Rules set out comprehensive schedules of actions expressly banned and clearly allowed for visitors of all kinds. When deciding an application for entry clearance, leave to enter or remain as a visitor, the Home Office assesses whether all the proposed activities amount to any banned conduct or sit within the permitted activities for the relevant visitor route and category applied for. Certain activities are only permitted where visitors satisfy further eligibility criteria set out in and detailed within the Immigration Rules, Appendix V: Visitor, paras V 5.1-V 15.4. For more detail and context, see Practice Note: Visitor: eligibility—Additional eligibility requirements for specific types of visitor applicants. Each time a visitor seeks to enter at the frontier, unless using an eGate, they will normally be asked to explain clearly what they plan to do in the UK and for how long in total. A visitor is expected to have, and be able to state plainly, one or more reasons for coming to the UK. Where a person already possesses...

Criteria for eligibility for the Financial Assistance Scheme The Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) closed to notification and qualification of new pension schemes on 1 September 2016. Members already receiving, or holding a deferred right to receive, assistance payments from the FAS are not affected by this closure. For FAS payments to be made, separate yet connected conditions must be met for: the scheme its sponsoring employer(s) the individual members As a rule, underfunded defined benefit schemes that began winding up on or after 6 April 2005 should turn to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to secure members’ promised benefits, rather than the FAS. However, the FAS can be relevant where a scheme entered winding up on or after 6 April 2005 but its sponsoring employer had become insolvent before that date. The eligibility requirements and the route into the FAS are prescribed in the Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005, SI 2005/1986 (the FAS Regs). Eligibility criteria for schemes A...

Genuineness and eligible role considerations in sponsored worker routes This Practice Note examines genuineness and eligible role issues across sponsored worker routes. These include, among other aspects, whether vacancies/roles genuinely exist, the financial viability of those roles, applicants’ qualifications/registration, the requirements of the job, and the worker’s intended purpose. The relevant criteria are found in the Immigration Rules for the Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility and Scale-up routes, and also in the Sponsor Guidance that applies to all sponsored work routes. The original 2008 sponsored employment model under the Points-Based System was, in essence, self-certification—employers had to sign up to and maintain stringent compliance arrangements to gain a sponsor licence, after which they could assign their own Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS), subject to periodic compliance visits and other checks to ensure they continued to meet sponsor duties, including accurate CoS assignment. This approach was moderated with the advent of what became known as restricted CoS when interim limits were introduced in Tier 2 (General) in July 2010, bringing...

1 Definitions In this Agreement, the following terms apply: Actual Completion Date – the date on which the Lease is granted. Approval – permissions or licences required for the Seller’s Works by Legislation or a Competent Authority. Competent Authority – any statutory or Royal Charter body, or a utility service or supply company. Completion Date – the specified working day after service of the Completion Notice, or a named date. Completion Money – the Price less the deposits [and any Incentive], plus any agreed sums such as the Contents Price. Deposit – the stated percentage of the Price, with credit for any Initial Deposit. Interest Rate – a stated percentage above the named bank’s base rate. Lease – the lease in the form attached at Appendix 4. Legislation – UK Acts, orders, regulations, consents, licences, notices and bye laws, and approved codes of practice. Ready for Occupation – the Property is complete for safe access and use,...