Clause 10
Charities Bill [Lords]
10:45 am
Edward Miliband (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Cabinet Office; Doncaster North, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman is correct. The provisions relating to excepted and exempt charities will not come into force before October 2007. Since the charities are excepted up to that point, they will not be affected by the increase in the general threshold from £1,000 to £5,000 which will take place before that date. That is simply to allow us to implement the new regulatory ambitions that we all share sooner than October 2007.