111 Interpretation.

• F1“the Authority” means the Financial Services Authority;

  • “branch” means any number of the members of a society, under the control of a central body, having a separate fund administered by themselves or by a committee or officers appointed by themselves, and bound to contribute to a fund under the control of a central body;

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  • “committee” means the committee of management or other directing body of a society or branch;

  • “the Companies Acts” means the F3Companies Act 1985 F4or, in Northern Ireland, the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986and any earlier enactment for the like purposes which has been repealed;

  • “exempt society” and “exempt branch” shall be construed in accordance with section 31(4) above;

  • “Gazette”, in relation to a registered society or branch, means—

    1. a

       the London Gazette if the registered office of the society or branch is situated in F5England and Wales, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man;

    2. b

       the Edinburgh Gazette if the registered office of the society or branch is situated in Scotland;

  1. c

     F6the Belfast Gazette if the registered office of the society or branch is in Northern Ireland

  • “land” includes any interest in land and, in Scotland, heritable subjects of whatever description;

  • “meeting” includes, where the rules of a society or branch so allow, a meeting of delegates appointed by members;

  • “officer” includes any trustee, treasurer, secretary, or member of the committee of management of a society or branch or any person appointed by the society or branch to sue and be sued on its behalf;

  • “persons claiming through a member” includes the nominees of the member where nomination is allowed;

  • “property” extends to all property, whether real or personal, including books and papers and (in Scotland) to all heritable and moveable estate;

  • “proposal”, in relation to an insurance, includes an application for an insurance;

  • “qualified actuary” has the meaning assigned to it by section 9(3) above;

  • “registered”, in relation to a society or branch, means registered under this Act or any other enactment (whether similar in extent to this Act or not) which at any time before the commencement of this Act made provision for registration similar to that made by this Act;

  • “signed”, in relation to a body corporate means sealed; and

  • F7“the 1992 Act” means the Friendly Societies Act 1992

  • “Treasury regulations” means any regulations made F8. . . by the Treasury and in force under this Act.