{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutual-societies-electronic-communications-order-2011/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutual-societies-electronic-communications-order-2011/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/593",
  "legislation_title": "The Mutual Societies (Electronic Communications) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutual-societies-electronic-communications-order-2011",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Inclusion of electronic addresses in register of members",
  "text": "(1) In section 63A of the 1974 Act (register of members of registered friendly societies)—\n(a) after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) Where a member has notified to the society an electronic address for the purpose of receiving notices or documents under this Act, the requirement under subsection (1) includes a requirement to secure that the register shows—\n(a) that electronic address; and\n(b) the purposes for which it has been notified.”;\n(b) after subsection (4) insert—\n“(4A) Where it appears to a society that an electronic address shown on the register pursuant to subsection (1) is no longer current, the society may remove that address from the register.”; and\n(c) after subsection (5) insert—\n“(6) In this section, “electronic address” has the meaning it has in the 1992 Act.”.\n(2) In paragraph 14 of Schedule 3 to the 1992 Act (register of members)—\n(a) after sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) Where a member has notified to the society an electronic address for the purpose of receiving notices or documents under this Act, the requirement under sub-paragraph (1) includes a requirement to secure that the register shows—\n(a) that electronic address; and\n(b) the purposes for which it has been notified.”;\n(b) after sub-paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) Where it appears to an incorporated friendly society that an electronic address shown on the register pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) is no longer current, the society may remove that address from the register.”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (6)(a), insert “postal” before “address”; and\n(d) in sub-paragraph (6)(b), after “some other address” insert “(not being an electronic address)”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 11 in force at 12.4.2011, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.40; section 63A was inserted by the Friendly Societies Act 1992, section 95, Sch 16 para 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/593/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:35.166045+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."
}