{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutual-societies-electronic-communications-order-2011/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mutual-societies-electronic-communications-order-2011/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Electronic transmission of annual accounts etc.",
  "text": "After section 78(4) of the 1992 Act (laying and furnishing of accounts and reports) insert—\n“(4A) A friendly society or registered branch is to be regarded as sending a copy of a document to a member for the purposes of subsection (3)(b) or (4)(b) if it makes the document available to the member on a website; and the end date for the purposes of section 119AB(4)(b) is the date when the duty ceases.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in force at 12.4.2011, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c.40; subsection (4) was amended by S.I. 2001/2617 art 13(1), Sch 3 Pt 1, paras 53, 91(b) and by S.I. 2008/1140 art 9, Sch 1, paras 1,4."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/593/article/7",
    "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."
}