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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-2014/section-101",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/14",
  "legislation_title": "Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-2014",
  "path": "section/101",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "101",
  "heading": "Meaning of society being a “subsidiary” of another society",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Part, a registered society (S) is a “subsidiary” of another registered society (P) if—\n(a) P is a member of S and controls the composition of its committee, or\n(b) P can exercise a majority of the votes to which S's members are entitled under its rules.\n(2) For this purpose P is regarded as controlling the composition of S's committee if—\n(a) P can appoint and remove all or a majority of the committee's members, by exercising a power that is exercisable by it without the consent or concurrence of any other person, or\n(b) P is a member of the committee and, by exercising such a power, can appoint and remove the remaining members or such number of members as, together with itself, would constitute a majority.\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) P is treated as having power to appoint a person to membership of S's committee if—\n(a) the person can be appointed only if P exercises a power of a kind mentioned in subsection (2)(a) in favour of the person, or\n(b) the person's appointment follows necessarily from the person's appointment as a member of P's committee.\n(4) Section 100(4) applies (with necessary modifications) for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of section 100.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/14/section/101",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:41.913207+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."
}