# Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014, Section 101: Meaning of society being a “subsidiary” of another society


(1) For the purposes of this Part, a registered society (S) is a “subsidiary” of another registered society (P) if—
(a) P is a member of S and controls the composition of its committee, or
(b) P can exercise a majority of the votes to which S's members are entitled under its rules.
(2) For this purpose P is regarded as controlling the composition of S's committee if—
(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
(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.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) P is treated as having power to appoint a person to membership of S's committee if—
(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
(b) the person's appointment follows necessarily from the person's appointment as a member of P's committee.
(4) Section 100(4) applies (with necessary modifications) for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of section 100.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/14/section/101 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-2014/section-101
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