{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001/article-186",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3649",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001",
  "path": "article/186",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "186",
  "heading": "Power of societies to disapply obligation to appoint auditors",
  "text": "(1) Section 32A of the Friendly Societies Act 1974 (power of societies to disapply section 31) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (3) the words “within the meaning of the Banking Act 1987” are repealed.\n(3) After that subsection, insert—\n“(3A) In subsection (3) the reference to a deposit must be read with—\n(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n(b) any relevant order under that section;\n(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 186 in force at 1.12.2001, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 32A was inserted by S.I. 1996/1738 article 10(1) and amended by S.I. 2001/2617, Schedule 3, paragraph 13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3649/article/186",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:23:30.014012+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."
}