{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-transfer-of-business-regulations-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/212",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Societies (Transfer of Business) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-transfer-of-business-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "BUILDING SOCIETIES\nMade 4th February 1998\nLaid before Parliament 6th February 1998\nComing into force 2nd March 1998\nThe Building Societies Commission, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 42B(8)(b) and 102(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 5(1) and (2) of Schedule 17 to, the Building Societies Act 1986, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations applied in part (with modifications) (5.3.2009) by The Mutual Societies (Transfers) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/509), arts. 1(2), 14-17 (with arts. 3, 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 53; section 42B was inserted by the Building Societies Act 1997 (c. 32), s. 17(1); s. 102 was amended by the Banking Act 1987 (c. 22), s. 108(1) and Schedule 6, paragraph 26 and by the Building Societies (Distributions) Act 1997 (c. 41), s. 1(3); Schedule 17 was amended by the Building Societies Act 1997 (c. 32), s. 30(3) and Schedule 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/212/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}