{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-life-assurance-premium-relief-regulations-1977/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-life-assurance-premium-relief-regulations-1977/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/1143",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Life Assurance Premium Relief) Regulations 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-life-assurance-premium-relief-regulations-1977",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Every friendly society which carries on life or endowment business shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that every person who on 31st December 1978 is paying contributions under a friendly society contract which forms part of such business receives a notice in a form approved by the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies setting out—\n(a) the effect of these Regulations,\n(b) whether the society has adopted the prescribed or an approved scheme, and\n(c) the effect of the scheme which has been adopted;\nand, as regards contracts made between 1st January 1979 and 5th April 1979, that such notice is received by the prospective contribution payer before the contract is made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/1143/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:56:14.286809+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."
}