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Building Societies Act 1965

Miscellaneous provisions

138: Filing of rules of existing societies with District Registrars of Companies

You could also call this:

"Sending society rules to local company offices"

After this law starts, the Registrar must send a copy of the rules for every existing society to a nearby District Registrar of Companies. They might send it to a different District Registrar if the society agrees.

The Registrar can ask each society to give them up to two copies of their rules to help with this task.

If a society doesn't give the Registrar the copies when asked, they're breaking the law. This applies to the society itself and any of its officers who didn't follow the rule.

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Part 9Miscellaneous provisions

138Filing of rules of existing societies with District Registrars of Companies

  1. It shall be the duty of the Registrar, as soon as practicable after the date of the commencement of this Act, to send a copy of the rules of every society existing at that date to the District Registrar of Companies whose office is nearest to the registered office of the society, or to such other District Registrar of Companies as may be approved for the purpose after consultation with the society.

  2. For the purposes of this section the Registrar may require any such society to send to him or her not more than 2 copies of its rules.

  3. If any such society fails to comply with any such requirement the society, and every officer of the society who is in default, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.