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CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 3 

Power to call for documents and search records.

3.(1)Where the Ministry has reasonable grounds to believe that any property
belonging to a charity or given for charitable purposes may have been
concealed, misapplied or withheld, it may, with the consent of the
Attorney-General, by order require any person having in his possession or
control any books, records, deeds or papers relating to the charity

(a)to furnish the Ministry with copies of or extracts from any of those
documents; or

(b)unless the document forms part of the records of other documents of a court
or of a public or local authority, to transmit the document itself to the
Ministry for inspection.

(2) Any officer of the Ministry, if so authorised by the Ministry, shall be
entitled without payment to inspect and take copies of or extracts from the
records or other documents of any court, or of any public registry or office
of records, for any purpose connected with the discharge of the functions of
the Ministry under this Act.

(3) The Ministry shall be entitled without payment to keep any copy or extract
furnished to the Ministry under subsection (1); and where the document
transmitted to the Ministry under that subsection for inspection by the
Ministry

(a)relates only to one or more charities; and

(b)is not held by any person entitled as trustee or otherwise to the custody
of the document;

Publication of charitable gifts in wills.

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