(1)Any reference to a society registered under this Act includes a society that, immediately before 1 August 2014, was registered or treated as registered under the 1965 Act (a “pre-commencement society”).
(2)In relation to a pre-commencement society—
(a)any reference to an acknowledgement of the registration under this Act of a society, its rules or any amendment of its rules includes an acknowledgement of the registration under the 1965 Act of the society, its rules or an amendment (and anything treated, immediately before 1 August 2014, as such an acknowledgement);
(b)any reference to rules or amendments of rules registered under this Act includes rules or amendments registered under the 1965 Act (and anything treated, immediately before 1 August 2014, as rules or amendments registered under that Act).
(3)In this section “reference” means a reference (expressed or implied) in this Act, another enactment or an instrument or document.
(4)Schedule 3 contain provisions applying in relation to certain pre-commencement societies.
(1)Schedule 4 contains consequential amendments.
(2)Schedule 5 contains transitional provisions and savings.
(3)Schedule 6 contains transitory modifications etc.
(4)The provisions listed in Schedule 7 are repealed or revoked to the extent specified.
(1)Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide for any provision of this Act, or of any instrument made under it, to extend (with or without modifications) to any of the Channel Islands.
(2)Any such Order in Council may make such transitional, incidental or supplementary provision as appears to Her Majesty to be necessary or expedient.
(1)Subject as follows, this Act extends to England and Wales and Scotland.
(2)Chapter 1 of Part 5 extends to England and Wales only.
(3)Chapter 2 of Part 5 extends to Scotland only.
(4)The following provisions also extend to Northern Ireland—
(a)this section;
(b)sections 136, 147, 154 and 155;
(c)Schedule 5.
(5)Any amendment, repeal or revocation made by this Act extends to any part of the United Kingdom to which the provision amended, repealed or revoked extends.
(6)Nothing in this section applies to section 152 (and the repeals made by this Act do not affect any power by Order in Council to make provision extending to any of the Channel Islands).
This Act comes into force on 1 August 2014, immediately after section 1 of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (registration of societies as co-operative or community benefit societies).
This Act may be cited as the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014.