Payment of the general charge

4.—(1) Any sums payable under regulation 3(1) and (4) above by a society shall be paid on the 1st May 1994 or upon the earlier occurrence of a specified event but if no specified event has occurred before that date the society may pay one half of the said sum on that date and defer the other half until the 1st October 1994 or the earlier occurrence of a specified event.

(2) Any sum payable under regulation 3(2)

above by a society shall be paid on or before the day one month after the date on which the society is first authorised or upon the earlier occurrence of a specified event.

(3) In this regulation “specified event” in relation to a society by which a sum is payable under regulation 3 above means the earliest of any date on which

(a)an instrument of dissolution of the society is first signed;

(b)the society resolves that it be wound up voluntarily or by the Court;

(c)a petition for the winding up of the society is presented.