{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1992/schedule-3/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1992/schedule-3/paragraph-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/40",
  "legislation_title": "Friendly Societies Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An incorporated friendly society shall, on demand, give a copy of its statutory documents—\n(a) free of charge, to any member of the society to whom a copy of those documents has not previously been given; and\n(b) to any other person, upon payment of such fee as the society may require, not exceeding the prescribed amount.\n(2) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) above to a copy of an incorporated friendly society’s statutory documents is a reference to—\n(a) a ... copy of the society’s rules for the time being, with a copy of the certificate of incorporation of the society annexed to it; and\n(b) a ... copy of the memorandum of the society for the time being.\n(3) If an incorporated friendly society fails to comply with the requirements of sub-paragraph (1) above, the society shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (1) above the “prescribed amount” means £1 or such other amount as the Treasury prescribe by order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 para. 13(2) omitted (12.4.2011) by virtue of The Mutual Societies (Electronic Communications) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/593), arts. 1(1), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 13(4) substituted (17.8.2001 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/2617, arts. 2, 8(1), 13(1), Sch. 3 para. 120(d) (with art. 13(3), Sch. 5); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 13(4): Functions of the Friendly Societies Commission transferred (1.12.2001) to the Treasury by S.I. 2001/2617, arts. 2(b), 4(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II (with art. 5); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 13 wholly in force; Sch. 3 para. 13 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 126(2); Sch. 3 para. 13 in force at 1.2.1993 by S.I. 1993/16, art. 2, Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/40/schedule/3/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:45.024631+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."
}