The Charity Commissioners' Fees (Copies and Extracts) Regulations 1992
These Regulations, which extend to England and Wales only, prescribe the fees which are payable to the Charity Commissioners (“the Commissioners”) where they furnish a copy of, or extract from, documents kept by them in accordance with the duties to do so imposed by section 9 of the Charities Act 1960 (as substituted by Schedule 3 to the Charities Act 1992) and section 7 of the Charitable Trustees Incorporation Act 1872 (see the definition of “relevant document” in regulation 1(2)). The former provision concerns documents in the Commissioners' possession which are open to inspection under the 1960 Act and the latter such documents which are open to inspection under the 1872 Act. Under section 4(7) of the 1960 Act the register of charities and copies or particulars of the trusts of any registered charity (which are required to be supplied to the Commissioners under section 4(5) of that Act) are required to be kept open to public inspection. Section 4(7A) of the 1960 Act (as inserted by section 2(6) of the 1992 Act) makes provision for the circumstances where information on the register is kept other than in documentary form (for example, on a computer). The register is, in fact, currently kept on a computer. Statements of the accounts of charities are also open to inspection.