The Financial Services Act 2012 (Mutual Societies) Order 2018 No. 323

SCHEDULE 2 Amendments of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969

3.  In section 2 (registration of society)—

(a) in subsection (1)(b) for “with two printed copies of the society’s rules to the registrar” substitute “to the registrar with two copies of the society’s rules or, if the application is made by electronic means, one copy of those rules”;

(b) in subsection (2)—

(i) omit “printed”;

(ii) at the end insert “(or, if the application is made by electronic means, one copy of those rules)”; and

(c) in subsection (3) for “in the prescribed form” substitute “, bearing the registrar’s seal,”.