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List of Acronyms, Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Works |
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PART I CHARITIES AND ACCUMULATION DELINEATED |
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3 | (18) |
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1.1 Why Investigate the Accumulation of Assets by Charities? |
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3 | (4) |
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1.1.1 Why Do Chanties Matter? |
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4 | (2) |
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1.1.2 Why Does Accumulation Matter? |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (7) |
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1.2.1 Charities and Not-for-Profits |
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7 | (4) |
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11 | (3) |
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14 | (2) |
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16 | (3) |
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1.4.1 What Legal Constraints Apply to Accumulation by Charities and Do Those Constraints Address the Key Issues Raised by Accumulation? |
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16 | (2) |
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1.4.2 To the Extent that Existing Legal Constraints Do Not Address the Key Issues Raised by Accumulation, How Could They Be Reformed to Better Address Those Issues? |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (2) |
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2 The Charity Sector, Its Goals And Accumulation |
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21 | (32) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (3) |
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2.3 Goals of the Charity Sector and of Charity Law |
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25 | (6) |
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25 | (1) |
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2.3.2 Theories Explaining the Existence of the Charity Sector |
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26 | (2) |
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28 | (3) |
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2.4 Accumulation by Charities |
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31 | (4) |
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2.4.1 Accumulation in Each Jurisdiction |
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31 | (3) |
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2.4.2 Areas of High Accumulation |
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34 | (1) |
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2.5 Reasons for Accumulation and Implications Arising |
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35 | (14) |
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2.5.1 Reason 1: Financial Sustainability of the Accumulating Charity |
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35 | (2) |
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2.5.2 Reason 2: Independence |
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37 | (1) |
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2.5.3 Reason 3: Improved Allocation Efficiency |
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37 | (1) |
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2.5.4 Implication 1: The Intergenerational Deferral of Benefits |
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38 | (5) |
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2.5.5 Implication 2: Which Generation Decides the Intergenerational Distribution of Benefits? |
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43 | (4) |
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2.5.6 Implication 3: Enhanced Agency Costs |
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47 | (2) |
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49 | (4) |
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PART II CHARITIES AND ACCUMULATION DELIMITED |
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3 Legal Restraints On Accumulation Applicable On Creation |
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53 | (42) |
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53 | (1) |
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3.2 Outline of Perpetuities Rules |
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54 | (2) |
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3.3 Statutory Abolition of Perpetuities Restraints? |
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56 | (4) |
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3.3.1 Abolition Resulting in No Perpetuities Accumulation Rules |
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56 | (2) |
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3.3.2 Abolition Leaving the Common Law Accumulation Rule in Place |
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58 | (2) |
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3.4 Common Law Accumulation Rule |
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60 | (16) |
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3.4.1 The Link between the Remoteness Rule and the Accumulation Rule |
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61 | (2) |
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3.4.2 What Item of Property Does the Accumulated Income Represent? |
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63 | (1) |
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3.4.3 Case Law on a Vesting in Charitable Purposes |
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64 | (10) |
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3.4.4 Underlying Principles and Conclusion as to Vesting |
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74 | (2) |
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3.5 Reformed Statutory Accumulation Rules |
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76 | (11) |
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3.5.1 Initial Disposition |
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77 | (2) |
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3.5.2 Subsequent Disposition |
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79 | (4) |
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3.5.3 An Alternative Interpretation of the Statutory Perpetuities Constraints |
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83 | (4) |
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87 | (5) |
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92 | (3) |
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4 Operational Restraints On Accumulation: Controller Duties |
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95 | (33) |
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95 | (1) |
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4.2 Controller Duties Arising from Legal Form |
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96 | (10) |
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97 | (1) |
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4.2.2 Companies and Nonprofit Corporations |
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98 | (4) |
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4.2.3 Incorporated Associations/Societies and CIOs |
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102 | (2) |
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4.2.4 Unincorporated Associations |
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104 | (2) |
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4.3 Application of Controller Duties to Accumulation |
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106 | (18) |
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4.3.1 `Duty' to Retain Endowment |
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107 | (2) |
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4.3.2 Duty to Act upon Genuine Consideration |
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109 | (7) |
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4.3.3 Duty of Impartiality |
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116 | (7) |
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4.3.4 A Purported `Duty' to Distribute Income within a Reasonable Period of Receipt |
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123 | (1) |
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124 | (4) |
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5 Operational Restraints On Accumulation: Alternative Control Mechanisms |
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128 | (32) |
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128 | (1) |
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5.2 Directly Controlling Accumulation |
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129 | (18) |
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5.2.1 Administrative Schemes |
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131 | (4) |
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5.2.2 Charity Proceedings Legislation |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (9) |
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5.2.4 Trustee Expediency Provisions |
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146 | (1) |
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5.3 External Administration as a Means of Indirectly Controlling Accumulation |
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147 | (5) |
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147 | (2) |
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5.3.2 Removing and Replacing Controllers |
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149 | (3) |
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152 | (4) |
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5.4.1 Controlling Directors |
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152 | (3) |
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5.4.2 Amending the Constitution to Remove Accumulation Requirements |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (4) |
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6 Operational Restraints On Accumulation: Taxation |
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160 | (33) |
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160 | (1) |
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6.2 Income Tax Exemption -- The Operational/'Application-for-Purposes' Requirement |
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161 | (22) |
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6.2.1 The Conventional View: Direct or Active Use of Income and Assets |
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164 | (3) |
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6.2.2 Interrogating the Conventional View |
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167 | (11) |
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6.2.3 Does the Additional `Governing Rules' Condition Affect the Interpretation of the `Application-for-Purposes' Rule? |
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178 | (1) |
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6.2.4 Charitable Institutions |
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179 | (2) |
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6.2.5 Conclusion on the Operational/'Application-for-Purposes' Test |
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181 | (2) |
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6.3 Minimum Distribution Requirements |
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183 | (4) |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (5) |
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PART III CHARITIES AND ACCUMULATION REFORMED |
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7 Intergenerational Justice And The Intergenerational Distribution Of Benefits |
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193 | (32) |
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193 | (1) |
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7.2 Approach of the Existing Accumulation Rules |
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194 | (2) |
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7.3 A Normative Basis for Intergenerational Distribution of Benefits |
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196 | (9) |
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7.3.1 Intergenerational Justice |
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197 | (5) |
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7.3.2 Interaction with Economic Efficiency |
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202 | (3) |
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7.4 Implementing a Focus on Intergenerational Justice |
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205 | (18) |
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7.4.1 Social Welfare Functions as Tools to Assist with the Practical Difficulties |
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208 | (3) |
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7.4.2 Charities Focus on Efficiency and the State Focuses on Intergenerational Distribution by Way of the Tax System |
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211 | (2) |
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7.4.3 Minimum Distribution Rules |
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213 | (3) |
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7.4.4 Intervention by a Regulator to Determine the Intergenerational Distribution |
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216 | (1) |
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7.4.5 Requiring That Charity Controllers Have Regard to Principles of Intergenerational Justice |
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217 | (6) |
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223 | (2) |
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8 Which Generation Decides The Intergenerational Distribution Of Benefits? |
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225 | (32) |
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225 | (1) |
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8.2 Gaps in the Decision-Making Ability of the Present Generation |
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226 | (4) |
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8.3 Normative Bases for Providing Present and Future Generations with Greater Decision-Making Ability about the Intergenerational Distribution of Benefits |
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230 | (13) |
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8.3.1 Cy-pres Insights into the Normative Bases |
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231 | (6) |
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8.3.2 Intergenerational Justice Insights into the Normative Bases |
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237 | (3) |
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8.3.3 Conclusions about the Normative Bases |
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240 | (3) |
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243 | (11) |
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8.4.1 Broadening the Grounds for Schemes |
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244 | (4) |
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8.4.2 Greater Charity Controller Discretion to Decide How to Amend Means and Ends |
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248 | (3) |
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8.4.3 Time Period of Protection for Charity Creator Accumulation Restrictions |
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251 | (3) |
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254 | (3) |
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257 | (15) |
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257 | (1) |
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257 | (2) |
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9.3 Enforcement of Controller Duties |
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259 | (9) |
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9.4 Coordinated Action by Regulators |
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268 | (2) |
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270 | (2) |
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272 | (11) |
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272 | (1) |
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10.2 What Legal Constraints Apply to Accumulation by Charities and Do Those Constraints Address the Key Issues Raised by Accumulation? |
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272 | (6) |
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10.2.1 Intergenerational Distribution of Benefits |
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273 | (2) |
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10.2.2 Which Generation Decides the Intergenerational Distribution of Benefits? |
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275 | (2) |
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10.2.3 Enhanced Agency Costs |
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277 | (1) |
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10.3 To the Extent Existing Legal Constraints Do Not Address the Key Issues Raised by Accumulation, How Could They Be Reformed? |
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278 | (3) |
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281 | (2) |
Index |
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