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Paragraph 35

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The advertising requirements referred to in paragraph 14 above, in relation to notices of meetings or postal F1or electronic ballots of building societies, are as follows.

(2)

Notice of the holding of the meeting or of the postal ballot must be given either—

(a)

by displaying a notice in a prominent position in every branch office, or

(b)

by advertisement in one or more newspapers circulating in the areas in which the members of the society reside,

according as the rules of the society provide.

(3)

The notice must be given not later than 21 days before the date of the proposed meeting or, as the case may be, the final date for the receipt of completed ballot papers F2or for the registration of votes in an electronic ballot (as the case may be).

(4)

The notice shall state where members may obtain copies of the resolutions and any statements with respect to the matter referred to in a resolution, forms relating to voting by proxy and, in the case of a postal ballot, the ballot papersF3, or, in the case of an electronic ballot, how members may access electronic voting facilities.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 2 para. 35(1) inserted (20.3.2003) by The Building Societies Act 1986 (Electronic Communications) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/404), arts. 1(1), 30(12)(a)

F2

Words in Sch. 2 para. 35(3) inserted (20.3.2003) by The Building Societies Act 1986 (Electronic Communications) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/404), arts. 1(1), 30(12)(b)

F3

Words in Sch. 2 para. 35(4) inserted (20.3.2003) by The Building Societies Act 1986 (Electronic Communications) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/404), arts. 1(1), 30(12)(c)

Notes on Schedule 2

Modifications

C1

Sch. 2 modified (3.1.1995) by 1994 c. 40, ss. 17(3), 82(2)

C2

Sch. 2 applied (with modifications) (7.4.2010) by The Building Societies (Financial Assistance) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1188), arts. 1(2), 8

Notes on Part III

Modifications

C1

Sch. 2 Pt. III (paras. 20–36) excluded (temp.) by S.I. 1986/2168, art. 3(1)(2)

C2

Sch. 2 Pt. III (paras. 20–36) modified by S.I. 1987/426, art. 4