Scottish charity given ultimatum to amend its constitution

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 20 March 2008

A Scottish quango has been given a third extension to the deadline by which it must amend its constitution or be struck off the register of charities.

Learning and Teaching Scotland was told by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator that six separate sections of its memorandum and articles of association directly contravened the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act. The act says an organisation is not a charity if “its constitution expressly permits the Scottish...

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