{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1992/section-116",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1992/section-116.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/40",
  "legislation_title": "Friendly Societies Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-act-1992",
  "path": "section/116",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "116",
  "heading": "Friendly societies etc.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“ballot” means—\n(a)a postal ballot (within the meaning of paragraph 8 of Schedule 12),\n(b)an electronic ballot (within the meaning of paragraph 8A of that Schedule), or\n(c)a combined ballot (within the meaning of paragraph 8B of that Schedule);\n“friendly society” means an incorporated friendly society or a registered friendly society;\n“incorporated friendly society” means a society incorporated under this Act;\n“registered branch” means a branch of a registered friendly society which is separately registered within the meaning of the 1974 Act;\n“registered friendly society” means a society registered within the meaning of the 1974 Act by virtue of section 7(1)(a) of that Act or any enactment which it replaced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 116 inserted (12.4.2011) by The Mutual Societies (Electronic Communications) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/593), arts. 1(1), 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Ss. 116-119 wholly in force at 8.6.1992 see s. 126(2) and S.I. 1992/1325, art. 2(c)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/40/section/116",
    "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."
}