(1)In this Act 'associate’, in relation to a person holding deferred shares in, or entitled to exercise or control the exercise of voting power in relation to, a building society, means—
(a)the wife or husband or son or daughter of that person;
(b)the trustees of any settlement under which that person has a life interest in possession or, in Scotland, a life interest;
(c)any company of which that person is a director;
(d)any person who is an employee or partner of that person;
(e)if that person is a company—
(i)any director of that company;
(ii)any subsidiary undertaking of that company; and
(iii)any director or employee of any such subsidiary undertaking; and
(f)if that person has with any other person an agreement or arrangement with respect to the acquisition, holding or disposal of deferred shares in that society or under which they undertake to act together in exercising their voting power in relation to it, that other person.
(2)For the purposes of this section—
'son’ includes stepson and 'daughter’ includes stepdaughter;
'settlement’ includes any disposition or arrangement under which property is held in trust.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 118A inserted (1. 1. 1993) by S.I. 1992/3218, reg.80