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Version date: 18 October 2023 - onwards
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7. Amendment of section 14 of Principal Act (amendment of registered rules)

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 30 November 2022 by Seanad Éireann

Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended -

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):

"(2) An amendment of the registered rules of a credit union shall not be valid until the amendment has been registered under this Act, for which purpose a copy of the amendment -

(a) in the case of a credit union other than a corporate credit union, signed by 4 members, one of whom shall be the secretary and another a director, and

(b) in the case of a corporate credit union, signed on behalf of not less than 2 members by the secretary of each of those members,

shall be sent to the Bank.",

(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (4):

"(4) Except where the Bank is satisfied that an amendment of a credit union's rules sent to it under subsection (2) is not in the interests of the proper and orderly regulation of the credit union, the Bank shall issue to the credit union, within 3 months of its receipt of the amendment, an acknowledgement of registration which, unless the contrary is proved, shall be sufficient evidence that the amendment is duly registered.",

(c)in subsection (5), by the substitution of "in the interests of the proper and orderly regulation of the credit union" for "not contrary to the financial services legislation", and

and