{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-68.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/68",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Restriction on dissolution or cancellation or registration of society.",
  "text": "(1) Where a registered society is to be dissolved under section 64, the society shall not be dissolved until there has been lodged with the registrar a certificate that all property vested in the society has been duly conveyed or transferred to the persons entitled and such certificate shall be signed, where the society is to be dissolved under section 64(1)(a) , by the liquidator or, where the society is to be dissolved under section 66A , by the secretary or other officer of the society approved by the registrar.\n(2) The registration of a society shall not be cancelled by the registrar under section 59(6), 60(3) or 61(4) until there has been lodged with the registrar a certificate signed by the secretary or other officer of the society approved by the registrar that all property vested in the society has been duly conveyed or transferred by the society to the persons entitled.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(1) substituted (23.4.2016) by Credit Unions and Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 16), s. 17(1), Sch. 1 para. 40(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 68(1) substituted (23.4.2016) by Credit Unions and Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 16), s. 17(1), Sch. 1 para. 40(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 68 applied (with modifications) (31.7.2006) by Community Benefit Societies (Restriction on Use of Assets) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/258), reg. 17, Sch. 2 para. 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1969/24/section/68",
    "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."
}