New Clause 11
Charities Bill [Lords]
3:00 pm
Andrew Turner (Shadow Minister (Charities), Home Affairs; Isle of Wight, Conservative)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
I would be grateful if the Minister told me that the new clause complied with the Cheltenham principle, but I believe that it does not. It is intended to provide an additional power—although not, I emphasise, a duty—for local authorities to remit any fee that is payable to them by a charity, or to draw up and operate a scheme of remittances for such fees. I shall illustrate it, as one so often does, by reference to a local example.
The people who run the Chale show, an agricultural show on the Isle of Wight, found that under the new licensing regime they had to pay £1,000 for a licence. Because their expected gate now exceeds the threshold set out in the Isle of Wight Acts, they had to comply with the requirements of those Acts as well, which cost another £3,000.