Incorporation
Incorporate your registered charity as a Board — giving trustees the power to sue, enter into contracts, and hold property as a body corporate with limited personal liability.
Registration of Charity as Board
This form is for registration of an existing Charity as a Board. Once CAIPO reviews the form and attachments and finds them in order, the Charity is incorporated as a Board and taken on file.
Filing fee: NIL
Legislation
Charities Act, Cap. 243; Interpretation Act, Cap. 1 (s.21)
Part III of the Charities Act provides for incorporation of charity trustees as a body corporate.
Frequently Asked Questions
Under Part III of the Charities Act, Cap. 243, trustees of a registered charity may apply to be incorporated as a Board. On incorporation they become a body corporate with the power to sue, enter into contracts, and hold property. Trustees are exempt from personal liability under s.21(1)(e) of the Interpretation Act.
The application must be signed by the majority of trustees and accompanied by: a copy of the resolution authorising the application; and a statutory declaration confirming the authorisation, the resolution, proper notice given, and the rules of the charity.
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