{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-appeal-tribunal-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-appeal-tribunal-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/891",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Societies Appeal Tribunal Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-appeal-tribunal-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act”means the Building Societies Act 1986;\n“appeal”means an appeal to which these Regulations apply in accordance with regulation 3;\n“appellant”means a person who under the Act is entitled to appeal or, being so entitled, has appealed, as the case may be, to the Tribunal against a decision of the Commission;\n“the chairman”means the chairman of the Tribunal appointed in accordance with section 47(2) of the Act;\n“the Commission”means the Building Societies Commission established by section 1 of the Act;\n“preliminary hearing”means the hearing held pursuant to regulation 10.\n“the secretary”means the person appointed by the Treasury to act as secretary to the Tribunal.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/983",
      "affecting_title": "The Building Societies Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/891/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:26:24.621298+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."
}