
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Charities References in Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 1st April 2007.
2 

(1) A body entered in the Scottish Charity Register must state, in legible characters–
(a) the registered number allocated to it by OSCR as part of the registration process;
(b) its name as entered in the Scottish Charity Register;
(c) any other name by which it is commonly known; and
(d) where the name entered in the Scottish Charity Register does not include “charity” or “charitable”, that it is a charity by using one of the terms referred to in section 13(1) or (2) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005,
on all documents listed in regulation 4 and which are issued or signed on behalf of the charity after 31st March 2008.
(2) Where a body is entered in the Scottish Charity Register after 30th September 2007, this regulation shall apply to documents listed in regulation 4 and which are issued or signed on behalf of the charity after the date which is 6 months after entry in the Register.
3 
Where a document is wholly in a language other than English, the information required by regulation 2 may be in that other language.
4 
The documents referred to in regulation 2 are–
(a) business letters and e-mails;
(b) advertisements, notices and official publications;
(c) any document which solicits money or other property for the benefit of the charity;
(d) bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements and orders for money or goods;
(e) bills rendered;
(f) invoices, receipts and letters of credit;
(g) statements of account prepared in accordance with either regulation 8, 9 or 14 of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006;
(h) educational or campaign documentation;
(i) conveyances which provide for the creation, transfer, variation or extinction of an interest in land;
(j) contractual documentation.
RHONA BRANKIN
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
6th March 2007