{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-northern-ireland-1969/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-northern-ireland-1969/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1969/24",
  "legislation_title": "Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-northern-ireland-1969",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate with amendments the provisions of certain enactments relating to industrial and provident societies and to apply those provisions with modifications to credit unions.\n[25th November 1969]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act: \"The Industrial and Provident Societies (N.I.) Act 1969 may be cited as The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (N.I.) 1969\" (6.4.2018) by virtue of Credit Unions and Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (NorthernIreland) 2016 (c. 16), ss. 8(2), 17(2) (with Sch. 2 paras. 2, 3); S.R. 2017/217, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1981 NI 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act: power to modify conferred (1.7.2006) by Industrial and Provident Societies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/314 (N.I. 3)), arts. 1(3), 10; S.R. 2006/242, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: applied (with modifications) by Insurance Accounts Directive (Miscellaneous Insurance Undertakings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 (S.R. 1994/429), Sch. (as amended (1.10.2006) by S.R. 2006/353, reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (20.1.2007 for certain purposes, otherwise 1.10.2009) by Companies Act 2006 (c. 46), ss. 1101(1), 1300(2); S.I. 2006/3428, art. 3(3); S.I. 2008/2860, art. 3(r) (with art. 8, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act: modified (6.4.2008) by Insurance Accounts Directive (Miscellaneous Insurance Undertakings) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/565), reg. 14(2), Sch. 2 (as amended (1.8.2014) by The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1815), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 20(4)(d)(g)(h); as further amended (with effect in accordance with reg. 2(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Statutory Auditors Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1164), Sch. 2 para. 16 (with reg. 2(6)(7)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (17.2.2009 for certain purposes otherwise 21.2.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 159, 167, 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/296, arts. 2, 3, Sch. para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (24.1.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 50(2)(d), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/113, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1969/24/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}