Section 84B Further provision: conversion of building society into companyF1

This section applies where

The F3share transfer instrument or resolution instrument must—

The conversion into the successor company takes effect on the registration of the company under the Companies Act 2006.

The successor company is to be treated as the same person in law as the building society.

The documents required by section 9 of the Companies Act 2006 (registration documents) to be delivered to the registrar (within the meaning of that Act) include a copy of the F4share transfer instrument or resolution instrument.

In section 13 of the Companies Act 2006 (statement of compliance) and section 14 of that Act (registration), the reference to the requirements of that Act is to be read as a reference to the requirements of that Act as modified by this section.

If the F5share transfer instrument or resolution instrument complies with subsection (2)(d), an application for a trading certificate is to be taken to have been made in accordance with section 762 of the Companies Act 2006 (procedure for obtaining trading certificate).

In this section—

• “company” means a company as defined in section 1(1) of the Companies Act 2006 which is a public company limited by shares;

• “the successor company”, in relation to a building society, means the company into which the building society is converted as a result of provision made under section F684ZA(2)(a) or 84A(5)(a).