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Charities Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 3:"Page 7, line 26, after ““must”” insert ““, in appropriate cases,””" The noble Lord said: My Lords, this should not detain the House for too long. It is an amendment standing in the name of my noble friend Lady Scotland. On Report, on 12 October, your Lordships’ House agreed to an amendment which would give the Charity Commission the duty, in performing its functions, to have regard to the desirability of facilitating innovation by or on behalf of charities. The noble Lord, Lord Phillips, proposed to qualify that duty so that the commission could exercise it only in ““appropriate cases””. He had, I understand, the support of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. The amendment to which I now speak gives effect to my undertaking to consider incorporating the noble Lord’s proposition into the commission’s new duty. I am grateful to the noble Lord and I beg to move.