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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-2014/section-56",
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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/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Execution of documents: presumption of validity of officer's signature",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to a document—\n(a) by which a contract is purportedly made, varied or discharged by or on behalf of a registered society, and\n(b) which is purportedly signed by a person holding an office in the society.\n(2) The signature is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, to be the signature of a person holding that office at the time the signature was made.",
  "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/56",
    "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."
}