{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-transfer-of-business-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-transfer-of-business-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1153",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Societies (Transfer of Business) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-transfer-of-business-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, except where the context requires otherwise—\n“the Act” means the Building Societies Act 1986;\n“merger” means an amalgamation of building societies under section 93 (Amalgamations) of the Act or a transfer (to any extent) of the engagements of one building society to another under section 94 (Transfer of engagements) of the Act, and “merge” has a corresponding meaning;\n“society” means a building society that proposes to transfer, or, as the case may be, has transferred, its business to a successor company under section 97 (Transfer of business to commercial company) of the Act and, in relation to a society which has so transferred its business, “member” means a former member of that society;\n“successor company” means a company to which a society proposes to transfer, or, as the case may be, has transferred, its business; and\n“vesting date” means the date which is the vesting date for the purpose of the transfer of a society’s business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1153/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:04:10.521986+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."
}