{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/credit-unions-act-1979/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/credit-unions-act-1979/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/34",
  "legislation_title": "Credit Unions Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/credit-unions-act-1979",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Guarantee funds.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, a credit union, or any two or more credit unions, may enter into arrangements with a person carrying on the business of insurance for the purpose of making funds available to meet losses incurred by members of a credit union which is a party to the arrangements; and any two or more credit unions may enter into any other kind of arrangements for that purpose.\n(2) Subject to subsection (3) below, a credit union shall have power to make contributions under arrangements made in accordance with subsection (1) above, and such arrangements may in particular provide for the vesting of a fund in trustees appointed under the arrangements.\n(3) Arrangements under subsection (1) above shall not come into force and no contribution shall be made thereunder by a credit union, until they have been approved by the appropriate authority; and the appropriate authority shall not approve any such arrangements unless they provide that any variation of their terms shall also require its approval.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Mutual Societies) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/496), art. 1(1), Sch. 6 para. 9 (with Sch. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 16(3) substituted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/2617, arts. 2(b), 13(1), Sch. 3 Pt. IV para. 280(b) (with art. 13(3)); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/34/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:17.735910+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."
}