{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/schedule-2/paragraph-35.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/53",
  "legislation_title": "Building Societies Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/35",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The advertising requirements referred to in paragraph 14 above, in relation to notices of meetings or postal or electronic ballots of building societies, are as follows.\n(2) Notice of the holding of the meeting or of the postal ballot must be given either—\n(a) by displaying a notice in a prominent position in every branch office, or\n(b) by advertisement in one or more newspapers circulating in the areas in which the members of the society reside,\naccording as the rules of the society provide.\n(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 or for the registration of votes in an electronic ballot (as the case may be).\n(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 papers, or, in the case of an electronic ballot, how members may access electronic voting facilities.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
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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"
    },
    {
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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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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/53/schedule/2/paragraph/35",
    "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."
}