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1(1)A building society which desires—
(a)to amalgamate with one or more other building societies, or
(b)to transfer its engagements to another building society, or
(c)to undertake to fulfil the engagements of another building society,
shall, unless the Commission, in the case of a society desirous of undertaking to fulfil another's engagements, has consented under section 94(5) to its proceeding by resolution of the board of directors, send to every member entitled to notice of a meeting of the society a statement concerning the matters specified in sub-paragraph (4) below.
(2)A building society shall include the statement referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above in or with the notice to be sent to its members of the meeting of the society at which the resolutions required for the approval of the amalgamation or, as the case may be, the transfer are to be moved.
(3)No statement shall be sent unless its contents, so far as they concern the matters specified in sub-paragraph (4) below, have been approved by the Commission.
(4)Those matters are the following, namely—
(a)the financial position of the building society and that of the other building society or societies participating in the amalgamation or transfer;
(b)the interest of the directors of the building society in the amalgamation or transfer of engagements ;
(c)the compensation or other consideration (if any) proposed to be paid to or in respect of the directors or other officers of the building society and of the other building society or societies participating in the amalgamation or transfer ;
(d)the payments (if any) to be made to members of the building society and of the other building society or societies participating in the amalgamation or transfer by way of a distribution of funds in consideration of the amalgamation or transfer;
(e)the changes (if any) to be made, in connection with the amalgamation or transfer of engagements, in the terms governing outstanding class 1 or class 2 advances made by the building society ;
(f)any other matter which the Commission requires in the case of the particular amalgamation or transfer of engagements.
(5)The statement shall be sent so that any member to whom the building society sends notice of the meeting at which the resolutions to approve the amalgamation or transfer are to be considered will receive the statement not later than he receives the notice.
(6)Any expression used in this paragraph and in section 96 has the same meaning in this paragraph as in that section.
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