Section 51: Transfer of engagements between societies.

Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 · 1965 c.12

This provision is repealed

It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

REPEALED on 2014-08-01 by Community Benefit Societies Act 2014.
The text below is from the dated revised snapshot immediately preceding this status change. It is historical and is not current law. View the historical source.

51(1)

Any registered society may by special resolution transfer its engagements to any other registered society which may undertake to fulfil those engagements; and if that resolution approves the transfer of the whole or any part of the society’s property to that other society, the whole or, as the case may be, that part of the society’s property shall vest in that other society without any conveyance or assignment.

51(2)

Subsections (2) to (6) of section 50 of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section as they have effect for the purposes of that section.

51(3)

In its application to Scotland, subsection (1) of this section shall have effect as if for the word “assignment” there were substituted the word “assignation”.

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