{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-17/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-17/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/53",
  "legislation_title": "Building Societies Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a building society applies for confirmation of a transfer of its business, the society shall publish a notice of the application in any one or more of the London Gazette, the Edinburgh Gazette or the Belfast Gazette, as the appropriate authority directs and, if it so directs, in one or more newspapers.\n(2) A notice published in pursuance of sub-paragraph (1) above shall—\n(a) state that any interested party has the right to make representations to the appropriate authority with respect to the application;\n(b) specify a date determined by the appropriate authority before which any written representations or notice of a person’s intention to make oral representations must be received by the appropriate authority; and\n(c) specify a date determined by the appropriate authority as the day on which it intends to hear any oral representations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 17 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Mutual Societies) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/496), art. 1(1), Sch. 8 para. 60(2) (with Sch. 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/53/schedule/17/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}