{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-insurance-business-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3008",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Insurance Business) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-insurance-business-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FRIENDLY SOCIETIES\nMade 6th December 1996\nLaid before Parliament 9th December 1996\nComing into force 30th December 1996\nThe Friendly Societies Commission, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 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, 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, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The European Communities (Designation) (No. 5) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3197)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "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)."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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