{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/section-115A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986/section-115A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/53",
  "legislation_title": "Building Societies Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986",
  "path": "section/115A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "115A",
  "heading": "Deemed agreement to use of web site",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is to be taken to have agreed with a building society to access a document, information or facility on a web site if—\n(a) the person has been asked individually by the society to agree to access documents, information or facilities generally, or documents, information or facilities of the description in question, on a web site, and\n(b) the society has not received a response within the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the society's request was received.\nThis is subject to subsections (2) to (4).\n(2) A person is not to be taken to have so agreed if the society's request—\n(a) did not state clearly what the effect of a failure to respond would be, or\n(b) was sent less than 12 months after a previous request made to the person for the purposes of this section in respect of the same or a similar description of document, information or facility.\n(3) A person who is taken to have made an agreement by virtue of subsection (1) may revoke the agreement.\n(4) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the following documents—\n(a) a statement required to be sent to members by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 16 (statements in connection with proposed mergers);\n(b) a merger statement (within the meaning of Part 2 of that Schedule) required to be sent to members by paragraph 3 of that Schedule;\n(c) a transfer statement or transfer summary (within the meaning of Part 1 of Schedule 17) required to be sent to members by paragraph 4(1) or (2) of that Schedule;\n(d) a transfer proposal notification (within the meaning of Part 1A of Schedule 17) required to be sent to members by paragraph 5B(1) of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 115A-115C inserted (18.2.2014) by Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), s. 148(2), Sch. 9 para. 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/53/section/115A",
    "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."
}