DCH 11 Mr Paul Pedley
Paul Pedley
12 Beresford Road London N8
OAJ
Francene Graham
Scrutiny Unit
Committee Office
House of Commons
7 Millbank
London
SW1P 3JA
28th May 2004
DRAFT CHARITIES BILL -
SUBMISSION
1.1 The Charity Commission would like to be able
to publish the accounts of the charities that they regulate on
their website.
1.2 At the moment they do not have an automatic right
to be able to do this, because the copyright would belong to the
individual charities.
1.3 In order to ensure greater transparency, the
Charities Bill would be the ideal opportunity to insert a new
clause stating that all charities regulated by the Charities Commission,
must send copies of their accounts to the charities commission
and that the Charities Commission are entitled to publish these
on their website.
2 Section 50 of the Copyright Designs and Patents
Act 1988 would accommodate such a move:
2.1 Section 59: Acts done under statutory
authority.
50.—( 1) Where the
doing of a particular act is specifically authorised by an Act
of Parliament, whenever passed, then, unless the Act provides
otherwise, the doing of that act does not infringe copyright.
(2) Subsection (1) applies in relation to an enactment
contained in Northern Ireland legislation as it applies in relation
to an Act of Parliament.
(3) Nothing in this section shall
be construed as excluding any defence of statutory authority otherwise
available under or by virtue of any enactment.
Yours sincerely
Paul Pedley
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