{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-15/paragraph-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-15/paragraph-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/53",
  "legislation_title": "Building Societies Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/56",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a building society has been wound up voluntarily, it is dissolved as from 3 months from the date of the placing in the public file of the society of the return of the final meetings of the society and its creditors made by the liquidator under—\n(a) section 94 or (as the case may be) 106 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (as applied to building societies), or on such other date as is determined in accordance with section 201 of that Act, or\n(b) Article 80 or (as the case may be) 92 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(as so applied), or on such other date as is determined in accordance with that Article,\nas the case may be.\n(2) Where a building society has been wound up by the court, it is dissolved as from 3 months from the date of the placing in the public file of the society of—\n(a) the liquidator’s notice under section 172(8) of the Insolvency Act 1986 (as applied to building societies) or, as the case may be, Article 146(7) of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (as applied to building societies), or\n(b) the notice of the completion of the winding up from the official receiver or the official receiver for Northern Ireland,\nor on such other date as is determined in accordance with section 205 of that Act or Article 169 of that Order, as the case may be.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 56(1)(b) substituted (N.I.) (1.10.1991) by S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19), arts. 2(1), 381, Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 45(d)(i); S.R. 1991/411, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 56(2)(a) inserted (N.I.) (1.10.191) by S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19), arts. 2(1), 381, Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 45(d)(ii); S.R. 1991/411, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 56(2)(b) substituted (N.I.) (1.10.1991) by S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19), arts. 2(1), 381, Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 45(d)(iii); S.R. 1991/411, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 56(2) inserted (N.I.) (1.10.1991) by S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19), arts. 2(1), 381, Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 45(d)(iv); S.R. 1991/411, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1986 c. 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1986 c. 45."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/53/schedule/15/paragraph/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:54:49.368285+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}