s.5Establishment of a register of non-profit organisations
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Section 5Part 3 — Registration of Non-Profit Organisations

Establishment of a register of non-profit organisations

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5. (1) A register of non-profit organisations shall be established and maintained by the Registrar.
The register shall include the following information with respect to a non-profit organisation —
its name, address in the Islands, telephone number and e-mail address, if any;
its purposes and activities;
the identity of the person who owns, controls or directs the non-profit organisation;
the date of its registration under this Law and if applicable, the date on which its registration was cancelled; and
such other information as the Registrar considers appropriate.
The register shall be open for public inspection, on such terms as the Registrar thinks fit. 5A. Non-disclosure 5A. (1) Any information received, pursuant to the provisions of this Law, on the affairs of a non-profit organisation, other than information contained in the register shall not be disclosed.
Subsection (1) shall not apply to a disclosure —
lawfully required or permitted by any court of competent jurisdiction within the Islands;
for the purpose of assisting the Registrar to exercise any functions conferred on the Registrar by this Law, by any other law or regulations made under this Law or under any other law;
in respect of the affairs of a non-profit organisation with the voluntary consent of the non-profit organisation;
for the purpose of enabling or assisting the Cabinet in the exercise of any powers conferred on the Cabinet under this Law or regulations made under this Law;
if the information disclosed is or has been available to the public from any other source;
where the information disclosed is in a summary or in statistics expressed in a manner that does not enable the identity of a non-profit organisation, its controllers, its officers, its personnel or its donors to be ascertained;
lawfully made — Non-Profit Organisations Law (2020 Revision) Section 6 c Revised as at 31st December, 2019 Page 9
to the Attorney General, the Director of Public Prosecutions or a law enforcement agency in the Islands, with a view to facilitating the conduct of an inquiry or criminal proceedings; or Crime Law (2020 Revision) or any other law in which a contravention may constitute wrongdoing on the part of the non-profit organisation; or
pursuant to the Terrorism Law (2018 Revision), the Proceeds of
for purposes of the Confidential Information Disclosure Law, 2016 [Law 23 of 2016].
Subject to subsections (1) and (2), a person who discloses information received on the affairs of a non-profit organisation while acting in the course of that person’s duties or in the exercise of that person’s functions under this Law or any other law commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term of one year or to both.

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