{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-2014/section-50",
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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/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Common seal",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law, a registered society need not have a common seal.\n(2) A registered society which has a common seal must have its registered name engraved in legible characters on the seal.\n(3) A registered society which decides to have a common seal must not cause such a seal to be made unless its registered rules contain provision for the custody and use of that seal.\n(4) An officer of a registered society, or a person acting on behalf of a registered society, commits an offence if the officer or person uses or authorises the use of a seal purporting to be the society's common seal which does not have the society's registered name engraved in legible characters on it.\n(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "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/50",
    "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."
}