Paragraph 2

At the end of paragraph (aa) of Article 3 there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

“(ab)

any question relating to a relevant offence which is put by or on behalf of the Building Societies Commission or a building society in order to assess the suitability of the person to whom the question relates to be a director or other officer of a building society, whether or not that individual is the person questioned and where the person questioned is informed at the time the question is asked that, by virtue of this Order, spent convictions for any relevant offence are to be disclosed;”.