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Building Societies Act 1965

Management and administration - Register of members

75: Inspection of register of members

You could also call this:

“You can check the list of people in a building group and get a copy if you want”

You can look at the list of members of a building society during business hours. The society might have some rules about when you can look, but they have to let you see it for at least 2 hours each day. You don’t have to pay to look at the list.

If you want a copy of the list, or part of it, you can ask for one. You’ll need to pay 20 cents (or less if the society says so) for every 100 words you want copied. After you pay, the society has to send you the copy within 10 days.

If the society won’t let you look at the list when you ask, or if they don’t send you the copy you paid for within the right time, you can ask a court for help. The court can make the society show you the list right away or send you the copies you asked for.

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Part 7 Management and administration
Register of members

75Inspection of register of members

  1. The register of members kept pursuant to section 74 shall during business hours (subject to such reasonable restrictions as the society may impose, so that not less than 2 hours in each day shall be allowed for inspection) be open without charge to the inspection of any member or any person nominated by the member on the member's behalf.

  2. The right to inspect the register conferred by subsection (1) shall be deemed to include the right to take or require a copy of the register, or of any part thereof, on payment in advance of 20 cents, or such less sum as the society may prescribe, for every 100 words or fractional part thereof required to be copied. The society shall cause any copy so required by any member to be sent to that member within a period of 10 days commencing on the day next after the day on which the payment is received by the society.

  3. If any inspection required under this section is refused, or if any copy required under this section is not sent within the proper period, the court may by order compel an immediate inspection of the register or direct that the copies required shall be sent to the member requiring them.

Notes
  • Section 75: replaced, on , by section 14 of the Building Societies Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 175).