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17. Bail-in stabilisation option

(1) Schedule 2 (which contains amendments relating to a new stabilisation option in Part 1 of the Banking Act 2009) has effect.

(2) The Treasury may by order make any provision they consider appropriate in consequence of the application to building societies of the amendments made by this Part.

(3) An order may, in particular -

(a) enable the Bank of England, for the purpose of enabling it to exercise in relation to the business of a building society any of the powers exercisable as a result of the amendments made by this Part -

(i) to convert the building society into a company, or

(ii) to transfer the business of the building society to a company which immediately before the transfer is owned by the Bank or by a person of a description specified in the order;

(b) enable the Bank of England, in connection with the exercise of a power conferred by virtue of paragraph (a), to cancel membership rights or shares in the building society;

(c) provide for any power exercisable as a result of

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