The Bill is comprised of twenty sections and one schedule, and—
provides for the provision of information about charity trustees (both public information and internal information for OSCR’s use),
updates the law in relation to disqualification criteria (expanding the grounds upon which a person is, subject to a possible waiver, disqualified from acting as a charity trustee; extending this to certain senior management functions; and providing for a publicly searchable record of persons who are disqualified by reason of having been removed from office in Scotland),
extends the current rules allowing OSCR to appoint interim charity trustees to cases where the charity is not in a position to request OSCR’s assistance,
in relation to accounts, provides for these to be publicly available on the Register as well as allowing for the possible removal of charities which fail to submit accounts and then ignore communications from OSCR about that failure,
requires the recording of charity mergers in a publicly accessible record and making default provision under which legacies transfer...