{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-19.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": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Members under age of 18",
  "text": "(1) A person under the age of 18 may be a member of a registered society unless the society's registered rules provide otherwise.\n(2) A person under the age of 18—\n(a) may enjoy all the rights of a member of a registered society, and\n(b) if aged 16 or over, may execute all instruments and give all receipts necessary to be executed or given under a society's registered rules.\nThis is subject to the society's registered rules and to the provisions of this Act.\n(3) A person under the age of 16 may not be a member of a registered society's committee or a trustee, manager or treasurer of a registered society.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 19 substituted (with application in accordance with Sch. 2 para. 4 of the amending Act) by Credit Unions and Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 16), ss. 9, 17(3) (with Sch. 2 para. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1969/24/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:52.392499+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."
}