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Home >  About us > Operational Guidance > OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE Index 057

OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE

EXEMPT CHARITIES


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An overview

OG 57 A1

Accounting requirements

OG 57 B1

Charities covered by Schedule 3 of the 2011 Act

OG 57 C1

Higher Education Corporations

OG 57 C2

Further Education Corporations

OG 57 C3

Exemptions from the 2011 Act

OG 57 C4

Our powers in relation to exempt charities

OG 57 C5

Text of Schedule 3 to the 2011 Act

OG 57 D1

Practical examples of application of guidance (see section 2 of OG 57 C1): charities administered in connection with girls' high school

OG 57 E1

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