{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/53",
  "legislation_title": "Building Societies Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Schedule, notice of a meeting of a building society shall be given to every member of the society who would be eligible to vote at the meeting if the meeting were held on the date of the notice.\n(2) Notice of the meeting shall, subject to those provisions, be given also to every person—\n(a) who becomes a shareholding or borrowing member of the society after the date of the notice under sub-paragraph (1) above and before the specified date; or\n(b) who, being such a member at the date of that notice, attains the age of 18 after that date and on or before the date of the meeting,\nand who would (in either case) be eligible to vote at the meeting if he remained such a member until the date of the meeting.\n(2A) In sub-paragraph (2) above “the specified date” means the date specified by the society as the final date for the receipt of appointments of proxies to vote at the meeting.\n(3) Accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or non-receipt of notice of a meeting by, any person entitled to receive notice of the meeting does not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. III para. 22(2)(2A) substituted for Sch. 2 Pt. III para. 22(2) (1.12.1997 in specified cases and for specified purposes and otherwise in accordance with art. 2(2)(3)(5) of S.I. 1997/2668) by 1997 c. 32, ss. 43, 47(3), Sch. 7 para. 57(2); S.I. 1997/2668, art. 2, Sch. Pt. II(w)(z)(xxxiv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 22(2A) substituted (20.3.2003) by The Building Societies Act 1986 (Electronic Communications) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/404), arts. 1(1), 29(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. III paras. 22, 34 excluded by S.I. 1987/426, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1115",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Societies Act 1986 (Assimilation to Company Law and Changes to Funding Limit) Order 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1115",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Societies Act 1986 (Assimilation to Company Law and Changes to Funding Limit) Order 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1115",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Societies Act 1986 (Assimilation to Company Law and Changes to Funding Limit) Order 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/53/schedule/2/paragraph/22",
    "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."
}