{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-and-provident-societies-increase-in-shareholding-limit-order-2014/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-and-provident-societies-increase-in-shareholding-limit-order-2014/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/210",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial and Provident Societies (Increase in Shareholding Limit) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-and-provident-societies-increase-in-shareholding-limit-order-2014",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Industrial and Provident Societies (Increase in Shareholding Limit) Order 2014, and comes into force on 6th April 2014.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965; and\n“member” means a member of a registered society other than a member exempt from the maximum shareholding limit under section 6(1) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1965 c.12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 6(1) was amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 2 of the Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c.71) and by S.I. 1994/341 and 1997/627."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/210/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:27:59.421188+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."
}