40K Rules Conundrum: Split Fire Edition

You know you can’t resist a good old-fashioned rules conundrum.  Its like trying to not look at someone getting a ticket on the roadside.

the Lounge’s Wolflold writes:

My Tactical Squad was already in assault, his Dark Reapers unit with attached Farseer had the split fire power, he wanted to assault my Tacticals but before he did that he made his split fire leadership and shot with the Reaper Exarch on a diferent target. Now can his Farseer and Reaper unit charge the Tacticals? The rules say you have to charge what you shoot, but split fire gives you the option to shoot at a different target, so…what happens then?

-Can he charge? 

-Does he get the +1 for charging or is it considered a disordered charge.

What are your thoughts?

For the record,

Split Fire is on P.42 of the rulebook

Declare Charges is on P.20 of the rulebook.

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