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Section 6: Maximum shareholding in society.

Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 · 1965 c. 12View on legislation.gov.uk

This provision is repealed
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

REPEALED on 2014-08-01 by Community Benefit Societies Act 2014.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.

Where a society is, or is to be, registered under this Act, no member thereof other than—

a registered society; or
an authority who acquired the holding by virtue of section 58or 59(2) of the Housing Associations Act 1985 or section 22 of the Housing Act 1996 ;or
a member who acquired the holding by virtue of paragraph 2 of Part I of the Schedule to the Agricultural Credits Act 1923 at a time when section 2 of that Act applied to the society,

shall have or claim any interest in the shares of the society exceeding one hundred thousand pounds.

Any interest in the shares of the society which are not withdrawable shall be disregarded for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.

In the case of a society which is a private registered provider of social housing, the restriction in subsection (1) does not apply to shares acquired by a local authority under the power in section 2 of the Local Government Act 2000 or the power in section 1 of the Localism Act 2011.

Where in the case of a society to which section 4 of this Act applies—

immediately before 27th April 1952 the rules of the society provided for the maximum amount of the interest in the shares of the society permitted to be held by a member (other than a registered society) to be two hundred pounds; and
no amendment of the rules of the society has been registered since that date; and
on or after that date and before 22nd July 1961 the society’s committee has by a resolution recorded in writing resolved that the said maximum amount shall be a specified amount greater than two hundred pounds but not greater than five hundred pounds,

then, subject to subsection (4) of this section, the registered rules of the society shall have effect subject to that resolution.

Where in the case of a society to which section 4 of this Act applies—

immediately before 22nd July 1961 the rules of the society provided for the maximum amount aforesaid to be five hundred pounds; and
no amendment of the society’s rules has been registered since that date; and
on or after that date and before 22nd January 1963 the society’s committee has by a resolution recorded in writing resolved that the said maximum amount shall be a specified amount greater than five hundred pounds but not greater than one thousand pounds,

then, subject to subsection (4) of this section, the registered rules of the society shall have effect subject to that resolution.

Where subsection (2) or (3) of this section applies to any society, the society’s committee shall not have power to vary or revoke the resolution referred to in that subsection; but upon the registration after the commencement of this Act under section 10 thereof of any amendment of the society’s rules the registered rules of the society shall have effect as if the resolution had not been passed, so, however, that this subsection shall not affect any interest in the shares of the society held by a member immediately before the date of that registration.

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