{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/section-57.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "section/57",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Definitions relating to registered societies.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part, in relation to a registered society—\n. . .\n“committee” means the committee of management or other directing body of the society; and\n“co-opted member”, in relation to the committee, includes any person co-opted to serve on the committee, whether he is a member of the society or not.\n(2) Any reference in this Part to a member of the committee of a registered society includes a co-opted member.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 154, Sch. 4 para. 56 (with Sch. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definition of “appropriate registrar” in s. 57(1) repealed (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 356(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 57 heading substituted (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 154, Sch. 4 para. 60 (with Sch. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/section/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:46.595645+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."
}