Overview:

• Recognition and registration look to be amalgamated with a focus in the system on legal registration rather than existential recognition.

Positive elements:

• Horizontal recognition is in effect.

• There are provisions in place to protect unjust deregistrations by the government of already registered organisations.

• The registration process sets out provisions so that organisations do not need to register sub-organisations and individual religious buildings.

Recommendations:

• To make the Chilean system classify as dynamic, an independent recognition agency would need to be established.

• Establish differentiation between recognition and registration in order to cater to belief systems, denominations and communities for the former and organisations and individual religious buildings for the latter.