{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1974/section-110",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1974/section-110.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/46",
  "legislation_title": "Friendly Societies Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1974",
  "path": "section/110",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "110",
  "heading": "Evidence and deposit of documents.",
  "text": "(1) Any document bearing the seal or stamp of the FCA shall be received in evidence without further proof.\n(2) Any document purporting to have been signed by a person authorised to do so on behalf of the FCA or the PRA, and every document purporting to be signed by any inspector or public valuer under this Act, shall, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, be received in evidence without proof of the signature.\n(2A) In subsections (1) and (2), “document” means any document issued, received or created by the FCA or the PRA (or, as the case may be, by any inspector or public valuer under this Act) for the purposes of or in connection with this Act.\n(3) All documents required by this Act to be sent to the FCA shall be deposited with the rules of the societies to which the documents respectively relate and shall be registered or recorded by the FCA, with such observations thereon, if any, as it considers appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 110(1)-(2A) substituted (17.8.2001 for certain purposes, otherwise 1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/2617, arts. 2, 8, 13(1), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 47(a) (with art. 13(3), Sch. 5); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 110(1)(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Mutual Societies) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/496), art. 1(1), Sch. 5 para. 2(1)(a)(2)(v) (with Sch. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 110(2)(2A) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Mutual Societies) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/496), art. 1(1), Sch. 5 para. 24 (with Sch. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 110(3) substituted (17.8.2001 for certain purposes, otherwise 1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/2617, arts. 2, 8, 13(1), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 47(b)(ii) (with art. 13(3), Sch. 5); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/46/section/110",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:06.632065+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."
}