The Financial Services Act 2012 (Mutual Societies) Order 2018

26.  In section 102 (Great Britain societies)—

(a) for subsection (2) substitute—

“(2) Subject to subsection (8), where the registrar receives from a registered Great Britain society a notice that the society is carrying on or intends to carry on business in Northern Ireland, the registrar must place the notice on a file which it keeps in respect of the society.” ; and

(b) in subsection (3)—

(i) for “copies of the rules of a registered Great Britain society are recorded” substitute “the registrar files a notice”;

(ii) for the words from “that society”, where they first appear, to “those rules”, where they first appear, substitute “the registered Great Britain society from which the notice was received, and for the purposes of those provisions that society, the rules of that society”.