{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-2014/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-2014/section-9.json",
  "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/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Appeal against refusal to register or cancellation or suspension of registration",
  "text": "(1) A society may appeal to the appropriate court from a decision of the FCA—\n(a) to refuse to register the society (but see subsection (3)),\n(b) to cancel the society's registration (but see subsections (3) to (5)), or\n(c) to renew a suspension of the society's registration so far as the renewal provides for the suspension to continue more than 3 months from the date its registration was first suspended.\n(2) “The appropriate court” means—\n(a) if the society's registered office is in Scotland, the Court of Session;\n(b) otherwise, the High Court.\n(3) No appeal may be made against—\n(a) a refusal to register a society on the ground that a condition in section 2(2)(a) is not met, or\n(b) a decision to cancel a society's registration on the ground that condition D in section 5 is met.\n(4) No appeal may be made against a cancellation within section 6(2).\n(5) An appeal against a decision to cancel a society's registration must be lodged before the end of the period of notice of the proposed cancellation given under section 6.\n(6) If a decision to refuse to register a society is overruled on appeal, the FCA must register the society and give it an acknowledgment of registration under section 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 9 applied (with modifications) by 1979 c. 34, s. 20(1D) (as substituted (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 154, Sch. 4 para. 10(4) (with Sch. 5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/14/section/9",
    "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."
}