{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/credit-unions-act-1979/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/credit-unions-act-1979/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/34",
  "legislation_title": "Credit Unions Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/credit-unions-act-1979",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Minimum and maximum number of members.",
  "text": "(1) The minimum number of members of a credit union shall be twenty-one ....\n(1A) Accordingly, references in the following provisions to 3 members are to be read as 21 members—\n(a) section 3(1)(a)(i) of the 2014 Act as it applies to an application for registration as a credit union;\n(b) section 5(3)(b) of that Act as it applies to the cancellation of a credit union's registration;\n(c) section 115(2) as it applies to the conversion of a company into a credit union.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1) omitted (1.8.2014) by virtue of Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 154, Sch. 4 para. 6(2) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 6(1A) inserted (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 154, Sch. 4 para. 6(3) (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 6(2)-(6) repealed (2.7.2002) by 2000 c. 8, ss. 338(4), 432(3), Sch. 18 Pt. V para. 21, Sch. 22; S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/34/section/6",
    "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."
}