{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-designation-of-qualifying-bodies-order-1990/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-designation-of-qualifying-bodies-order-1990/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1434",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Societies (Designation of Qualifying Bodies) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-designation-of-qualifying-bodies-order-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Building Societies Act 1986;\n“appropriate vehicle” means a body corporate individually specified or of a description specified in column 1 of Part I of the Schedule to this Order;\n“the relevant power”, in relation to an appropriate vehicle, means the power for the exercise of which, as specified in column 3 of Part I of the Schedule to this Order, that appropriate vehicle is designated as suitable; and\n“society” means a building society.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1434/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:15:40.052551+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."
}