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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES

Made 6th December 1996

Laid before Parliament 9th December 1996

Coming into force 30th December 1996

The Friendly Societies Commission, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f1 in relation to the authorisation of the carrying on by friendly societies of insurance business and the regulation of such business and its conduct and in relation to anything supplemental or incidental to such matters^f2, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 45(1) and (2), 56(1) and (2) and 121(3) of the Friendly Societies Act 1992^f3, hereby makes the following Regulations:

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Footnotes

f1: 1972 c. 68.
f2: The European Communities (Designation) (No. 5) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3197).
f3: 1992 c. 40. The Act was amended by the Friendly Societies (Amendment) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2519), the Friendly Societies Act 1992 (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1984), the Deregulation (Friendly Societies Act 1992) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1188) and by the Financial Institutions (Prudential Supervision) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1669).