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Religion and Public Benefit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2009
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The Charity Commission's final guidance on The Advancement of Religion for the Public Benefit met with cautious approval, not least because it is considerably more user-friendly than the rather tortuous exposure draft that preceded it. Several aspects of that draft were arguable: the final version resolves many of the uncertainties.
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1 Available at <http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Library/publicbenefit/pdfs/pbreligiontext.pdf>, accessed 20 January 2009.
2 And at one point simply wrong: the assertion in the draft that it was impossible to become a Sikh by conversion.
3 Charities Act 2006, s 2(3): ‘religion’ includes: (i) a religion that involves a belief in more than one god, and (ii) a religion that does not involve a belief in a god.
4 In section C3.
5 In Annex B.
6 In section G3.
7 In section C3.
8 In section C6.
9 In section G3.
10 Gilmour v Coats [1949] AC 426 [1949] 1 All ER 848 HL, in which it was held that a gift to an enclosed religious order could not be charitable because it conferred no benefit on the public.
11 In section E3.
12 Ibid.
13 In my own response on behalf of the Churches' Legislation Advisory Service, I suggested that, ultimately, all Christian churches were established to promote the teachings of an individual: the Lord Jesus.