{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-designated-capital-resources-deferred-shares-order-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-designated-capital-resources-deferred-shares-order-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Societies (Designated Capital Resources) (Deferred Shares) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-designated-capital-resources-deferred-shares-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order–\n“the Act” means the Building Societies Act 1986;\n“old deferred shares” means shares issued by a building society on or before 31st December 1986 on the terms set out in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the previous regulations;\n“new deferred shares” means shares of the class defined for the purposes of section 119(1) of the Act by the Building Societies (Deferred Shares) Order 1989;\n“the previous regulations” means the Building Societies (Authorisation) Regulations 1981 or the Building Societies (Authorisation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/207."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1488, revoked by the Building Societies Act 1986."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. (NI) 1982 No. 155, revoked by the Building Societies Act 1986."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/208/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:49:58.004739+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."
}