Recreational facilities for charitable purposes

In force

(1)

In this section —

recreational facilities includes facilities provided for sport or leisure activities.

(2)

Recreational facilities are taken to be provided for a charitable purpose if —

(a)

they are provided with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities are primarily intended (the intended users); and

(b)

either —

(i)

the intended users have need of those facilities because of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances; or

(ii)

the facilities are to be available to members of the public or a substantial section of the public.

(3)

The reference in subsection (2) to the provision of recreational facilities includes —

(a)

the provision of premises for those facilities and the maintenance of grounds and buildings of those premises; and

(b)

the organising of any activity for the purposes of those facilities.

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