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Section 2

of Public Collections Regulations 1955 Reprinted 1995

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Section 2

(1)

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires: -

“chief collector” in relation to a collection means a person whom the chief promoter has appointed, in respect of any district, to take charge of any collection in that district;

“chief promoter” in relation to a collection means a person to whom a licence has been granted authorising him to promote that collection;

“collecting box” means a box or other receptacle for monetary contributions, securely closed and sealed in such a way as to prevent the same being opened

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without such seal being broken;

“prescribed badge“ means a badge in the form set out in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations;

“prescribed certificate of authority” means a certificate given in the form and manner set out in the Third Schedule to these Regulations;

“receipt book” means a book of detachable forms of receipt consecutively numbered with counterfoils or duplicates correspondingly numbered.

(2)

A mark shall for the purposes of these Regulations be deemed to have been made on a collecting box if it is made on a wrapper securely gummed to the collecting box.