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Building Societies Act 1965

Management and administration - Registered office

73: Change of registered office

You could also call this:

“How to tell the government when your building society moves its main office”

If you are part of a building society and want to change your registered office, you need to know a few things. First, you must tell the Registrar about the change within 14 days of making it. This is important because if you don’t, your society and any officer who didn’t follow this rule will be breaking the law.

You don’t need to worry about changing the rules of your society just because you’re moving your registered office. The rules can stay the same even if the office location changes.

Remember, it’s your job to make sure you tell the Registrar about any change to your registered office. If you don’t, you could get into trouble.

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Part 7 Management and administration
Registered office

73Change of registered office

  1. A society must send notice of a change to its registered office to the Registrar for registration within 14 days after the date of the change.

  2. Repealed

  3. It shall not be necessary to alter the rules of a society by reason only that its registered office is changed.

  4. If a society fails to give notice to the Registrar in accordance with subsection (1), the society, and every officer of the society who is in default, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

Compare
  • Building Societies Act 1962 s 108 (UK)
Notes
  • Section 73(1): replaced, on , by section 7 of the Building Societies Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 43).
  • Section 73(2): repealed, on , by section 7 of the Building Societies Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 43).