Clause 10
Charities Bill [Lords]
10:45 am
Edward Miliband (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Cabinet Office; Doncaster North, Labour)
There is a simple explanation. We have given a promise, to excepted charities in particular, that clause 9 will not be fully implemented before October 2007. However, we want to have the power to raise from £1,000 to £5,000 the general threshold for the requirement to register before that point. That is the reason why clause 10 will, in essence, explode once clause 9 is implemented. That will not be before October 2007 because that is the promise that has been made to the excepted charities.