Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010

The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (c.7) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that received Royal Assent on 18 March 2010.

Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010
Long titleAn Act to make provision for societies to be registered as co-operative or community benefit societies and to re-name the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts; to apply to registered societies the provisions relating to directors disqualification and to make provision for the application of certain other enactments relating to companies; to confer power to make provision for credit unions corresponding to any provision applying to building societies; and for connected purposes.
Citation2010 c. 7
Introduced byLord Tomlinson and Malcolm Wicks [1]
Territorial extentEngland and Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland (only to amend existing legislation)
Dates
Royal assent18 March 2010
Other legislation
Amended byCo-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014
Status: Amended
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Text of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

Provisions

The Act provides that:

Parliamentary process

The Bill was first presented (first reading) in the House of Lords on 19 November 2009 and received its third reading on 14 January 2010.[4] It was first read in the House of Commons on 14 January 2010 and received its third reading on 12 March 2010.[4]

See also

References


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