SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7 Other amendments of 1986 Act

Mergers: supplementary provisions

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1

In paragraph 1 of Schedule 16 to the 1986 Act (mergers: supplementary provisions)—

a

in sub-paragraph (4)(e), for the words “class 1 or 2 advances made by the building society” there shall be substituted the words “ loans made by the building society which are secured on land ”; and

b

sub-paragraph (5) shall cease to have effect.

2

For sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 4 of that Schedule there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—

2

In any case where merger resolutions are to be moved at any meeting of a building society, every notice of the meeting shall have included in or with it—

a

a merger statement with respect to any merger proposal, other than a proposal of which notice has already been given under this paragraph, received by it more than 42 days before the date of the meeting; and

b

a transfer proposal notification with respect to any transfer proposal so received by it.

3

In this paragraph and paragraph 5 below—

  • “transfer proposal” has the same meaning as in Part IA of Schedule 17;

  • “transfer proposal notification” means a transfer proposal notification (within the meaning of that Part) required to be sent to members by paragraph 5B(1) of that Schedule.

3

In sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 5 of that Schedule—

a

after the words “merger statement” there shall be inserted the words “ or transfer proposal notification ”; and

b

after the words “the statement” there shall be inserted the words “ or notification ”.

4

In sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph, after the words “merger statement” there shall be inserted the words “ or transfer proposal notification ”.