Charities (Amendment) Act 2024

Amendment of section 50 of Principal Act

18. Section 50 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by the substitution, in subsection (2), of “€1,000,000” for “€500,000”,

(b) in subsection (13)—

(i) by the deletion of paragraph (a),

(ii) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c):

“(c) to a charitable organisation in respect of a financial year in which 2 or more of the following conditions are met:

(i) its balance sheet total does not exceed €10,000, or such greater amount not exceeding €50,000 as may be prescribed;

(ii) its gross income does not exceed €10,000, or such greater amount not exceeding €50,000 as may be prescribed;

(iii) it has no employees,”,

and

(iii) by the substitution, in paragraph (d), of “Minister for Education” for “Minister”,

and

(c) in subsection (14)(b)—

(i) by the insertion, in subparagraph (i), of “or the United Kingdom” after “an EEA state”, and

(ii) by the substitution of “the state in which the charitable organisation is established” for “that EEA state”.