{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-proxy-voting-regulations-2011/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-proxy-voting-regulations-2011/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/883",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Proxy Voting) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-proxy-voting-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Notice of right to vote by proxy",
  "text": "(1) In every notice calling a meeting of a society at which a resolution is to be moved there must be a statement that—\n(a) a member entitled to attend and vote may appoint a proxy to attend and vote at the meeting instead of that member; and\n(b) the member may direct the proxy how to vote at the meeting.\n(2) The proxy need not be a member of the society and must not, in the case of a collecting society, be a collector or superintendent of that society.\n(3) In this regulation—\n“collecting society” has the meaning it has in section 1(1A) (industrial assurance business) of the Industrial Assurance Act 1923;\n“collector” has the meaning it has in section 45(1) (interpretation) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1923 c.48; repealed by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, ss416(1)(a), 432(3), Sch 22 but saved in part by S.I. 2001/3647. Section 1(1A) was inserted by the Companies Act 1967, ss 97,99, Sch 6, Pt II, substituted by the Friendly Societies Act 1992, s 100, Sch 19, Pt 1 paras 1, 2(1), amended and saved by S.I. 2001/3647."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1923 c.48; section 45(1) was amended by the Friendly Societies Act 1992, s100, Sch 19, Pt 1, paras 1, 12 and by S.I. 2001/3647, art 3(1), Sch 1, Pt 1, para 1, 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/883/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:29.161914+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."
}