Charities Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 12:"Page 4, line 18, at end insert ““unless and until it registers as such, in which event it shall cease to be a registered sports club””" The noble Lord said: This amendment is similar to but significantly different from one advanced on 9 February. It is designed to clarify the fact that a community amateur sports club can change its status into that of a charity if it so wishes. If and when it registers as a charity, ipso facto, according to my Amendment No. 12, it will cease to be a registered sports club. When we discussed this matter previously (cols. 121–4), the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, said that he would take the matter away and rethink it. It is not a huge issue, but it is designed to make absolutely clear the fact that a registered sports club—or community amateur sports club, as it is alternatively called—can transmogrify into a charity, and that if it goes on the register of charities, by that event it ceases to be a registered sports club. I beg to move.