FUNDRAISING ACT 1998 - SECT 6 Meaning of conduct a fundraising appeal

FUNDRAISING ACT 1998 - SECT 6

    (1)     A person conducts a fundraising appeal if she or he—

        (a)     organises the appeal in a capacity other than that of an employee or agent; or

        (b)     is the sole participant in the appeal; or

        (c)     is one of a number of participants in the appeal, but is not participating in the appeal as an employee or agent.

    (2)     In determining whether a person is conducting a fundraising appeal, it does not matter whether the person is acting as a volunteer or is being paid.

S. 6(3) substituted by No. 70/2001 s. 6.

    (3)     If a person who conducts a fundraising appeal retains a commercial fundraiser to administer all or part of the appeal, a reference in this Act to the person conducting the appeal is a reference—

        (a)     to the person in respect of the appeal as a whole and of any aspect of the appeal that encompasses the appeal as a whole (such as a requirement to produce accounts relating to the appeal); and

S. 6(3)(b) amended by No. 2/2009 s. 7.

        (b)     to the commercial fundraiser in respect of any aspect of the appeal that is being administered by the commercial fundraiser irrespective of whether the commercial fundraiser is an agent of the person; and

        (c)     to the person in respect of any other aspect of the appeal.

S. 6(4) repealed by No. 70/2001 s. 6.

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S. 6A

inserted by No. 70/2001 s. 7.