The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Transitional Provisions) (Partly Completed Procedures) Order 2001

Application of Friendly Societies Act to transitional appeals

120.—(1) Notwithstanding any repeal or amendment—

(a) subsection (6) of section 58, subsections (1), (2), (3), (3A)(1) (6) and (13) of section 59 and sections 60 and 61 of the original Friendly Societies Act apply to transitional friendly society appeals, subject to the modifications set out in this article;

(b) section 58(7) of the original Friendly Societies Act applies to a transitional friendly society appeal brought by a person under subsection (2) of that section (but as if the reference to subsection (8) were omitted).

(2) A “transitional friendly society appeal” is—

(a) an appeal which has been brought in accordance with section 58 of the original Friendly Societies Act but which has not been determined before commencement; or

(b) an appeal brought after commencement pursuant to article 119.

(3) For the purposes of this Chapter, in the provisions mentioned in paragraph (1)—

(a) references to appeals brought under section 58 of the original Friendly Societies Act are to be read as references to transitional friendly society appeals; and

(b) references to appeals brought under section 58(2) are to be read as references to transitional friendly society appeals brought under that subsection.

(4) In section 61(1) of the original Friendly Societies Act, the reference to “the Commission” is to be read as a reference to the Authority and this Chapter applies to any matter remitted to the friendly society tribunal pursuant to that section as it applies to a transitional friendly society appeal.

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Subsection (3A) was inserted by the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993.