{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2849",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Transitional Provisions",
  "text": "(1) If a friendly society to which section 37(2) or (3) of the 1992 Act applies was immediately before the commencement date lawfully providing insurance of any class or part of a class in an EEA State which is not a member State, it shall be treated for the purposes of the 1992 Act as if the requirements of paragraph 5 of Schedule 13B to that Act have been complied with in relation to insurance business of that class or part of a class provided in that State.\n(2) If a friendly society to which section 37(2) or (3) of the 1992 Act applies was immediately before the commencement date lawfully carrying on direct insurance business of a class or part of a class through an overseas branch in an EEA State which is not a member State, it shall be treated for the purposes of the 1992 Act as if the requirements of paragraph 1 of Schedule 13B to that Act have been complied with in relation to insurance business of that class or part of a class carried on in that State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2849/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:41:49.797624+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."
}