The Charities Commission will be scrapped under legislation passed by Parliament on Tuesday night.
The Crown Entities Reform Bill will instead see the regulation of charities carried out by a board within the Department of Internal Affairs.
Members of ComVoices, a network of community and voluntary sector organisations, said it was not too late for the parties that made up the Government to review their support for the clause that will create havoc with the Government’s results-based focus.
Ric Odom, Chair of ComVoices, said an amendment was being proposed to defer the changes. The changes would be self-defeating and would simply serve to sabotage the Government’s own results-based approach.
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