{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/53",
  "legislation_title": "Building Societies Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/25",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any provision contained in the rules of a building society shall be void in so far as it would have the effect either—\n(a) of excluding the right to demand a poll at a meeting of the society on any question other than the election of a chairman of the meeting or the adjournment of the meeting, or\n(b) of making ineffective a demand for a poll on any such question which is made by not less than ten members having the right to vote at the meeting.\n(2) Any appointment of a proxy to vote at a meeting of a building society shall be taken also to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll; and for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above a demand by a person as proxy of a member shall be the same as the demand by the member.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 25(2) substituted (20.3.2003) by The Building Societies Act 1986 (Electronic Communications) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/404), arts. 1(1), 29(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1115",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Societies Act 1986 (Assimilation to Company Law and Changes to Funding Limit) Order 2026"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/53/schedule/2/paragraph/25",
    "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."
}