Charities (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2013 (96 of 2013)

Schedule 2   Transitional provisions

Part 3   Purposes of registered charitable trusts

6   Purpose of relief of poverty treated as being for public benefit

For the purposes of the Charities Act 2013, a purpose that a trust has on the day before the commencement day is treated, from the commencement day, as being for the public benefit, if:

(a) the purpose is the relief of poverty; and

(b) on the day before the commencement day, the trust is registered under the ACNC Act as the subtype of entity mentioned in column 2 of item 1 of the table in subsection 25-5(5) of that Act, as in force on the day before the commencement day.