{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1974/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1974/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/46",
  "legislation_title": "Friendly Societies Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1974",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Legal proceedings concerning property.",
  "text": "In all legal proceedings whatsoever concerning any property vested in the trustees of a registered society or branch, the property may be stated to be the property of the trustees in their own names as trustees for the society or branch without further description.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/46/section/56",
    "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."
}