Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Bill

A Private Members' Bill introduced by Malcolm Wicks (Lab, North Croydon) to make provision for societies to be registered as co-operativeor community benefit societies and to re-name the Industrial andProvident Societies Acts.

The Bill seeks to apply to registered societies theprovisions relating to directors’ disqualification and to makeprovision for the application of certain other enactments relating tocompanies; to confer power to make provision for credit unionscorresponding to any provision applying to building societies; and forconnected purposes.


Progress

House of Commons

First reading: January 21 2009

Second reading: April 24 2009