{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-97",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/co-operative-and-community-benefit-societies-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-97.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/97",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "97",
  "heading": "Regulations.",
  "text": "(1) The Department may make regulations—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) prescribing anything which may be or is to be prescribed by the Department under this Act;\nand generally for carrying this Act into effect.\n(2) Any such regulations may impose reasonable fines on persons who contravene or fail to comply with any of those regulations; and any such fine shall be recoverable on the summary conviction of the offender.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Any regulations made under this Act shall be subject to negative resolution.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Act substituted (23.4.2016) by Credit Unions and Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 16), 17(1) Sch. 1 para. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 97(1)(a)-(d) omitted (6.4.2018 immediately after 2016 c. 16 (N.I.), s. 8(2) comes into force) by virtue of The Financial Services Act 2012 (Mutual Societies) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/323), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 21(a) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 97(3) omitted (6.4.2018 immediately after 2016 c. 16 (N.I.), s. 8(2) comes into force) by virtue of The Financial Services Act 2012 (Mutual Societies) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/323), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 21(b) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1969/24/section/97",
    "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."
}