Deck 15: Charities

Question 1

The first example of Parliament recognising what was, at the time, a charity, was set out in the Preamble to the Statute of Charitable Uses Act 1601.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Name a case where a trust which was to benefit the community was considered.

Answer 2

No Answer.

Question 3

Which section of the Charities Act 2011 provides guidance as to what is meant by religion?

Answer 3

No Answer.

Question 4

How did Evershed MR define poverty in Re Coulthurst (1951) Ch 661?

Question 5

What were four heads of charity as set out by Lord Macnaghten in The Commissioners for Special Purposes of the Income Tax v Pemsel?

Question 6

What are the main roles of the Charities Commission?

Question 7

What are the advantages of having charitable status?

Question 8

What are the three requirements that an organisation must possess in order to be defined as a charity?

Question 9

Which case provided a more modern definition of charitable purpose by summarising those charitable purposes into four main heads?

A)Attorney-General v Charity Commission for England and Wales
B)Re Hopkins' Will Trusts
C)The Commissioners for Special Purposes of the Income Tax v Pemsel.
D)Oppenheim v Tobacco Securities Trust Ltd

Question 10

As a general principle, the trust must exist only for charitable reasons.

Question 11

In Oppenheim v Tobacco Securities Trust Ltd (1951) AC 297, the personal-nexus test was established.

Question 12

All charitable trusts must benefit the public.

Question 13

McGovern v Attorney-General (1982) Ch 321 held that a trust for a political purpose can be charitable.

Question 14

The advancement of health or the saving of lives was a new separate charitable head under the Charities Act 2006.

Question 15

A prize fund for chess was not held to be charitable in Re Dupree's Deed Trusts (1945) Ch 16.

Question 16

Re Sanders' Will Trusts (1954) Ch 265 held that where anyone can benefit from the trust, it will probably not be held to be charitable.

Question 17

What were the two main principles set out by the Charity Commission in its guidance on public benefit?