Building Societies Act, 1989
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Conversion resolutions. |
71.—(1) A resolution of a society shall be a conversion resolution when it has been passed by a majority of such members of the society as, being entitled to do so— | |
(a) vote in person or by proxy on a poll on the resolution at a meeting of the society of which notice specifying the intention to move the resolution as a conversion resolution has been duly given; or | ||
(b) vote in a postal ballot on the resolution of which notice specifying that the resolution will not be effective unless it is passed as a conversion resolution has been duly given. | ||
(2) For the purposes of this section and Part XI a person is a borrowing member of a society at any time if at that time his indebtedness to the society is in respect of— | ||
(a) a loan, made under the repealed enactments, secured by the mortgage of freehold or leasehold estate or interest in a house, or | ||
(b) a housing loan, | ||
and if, in either case, the amount of his mortgage debt is not less than £500 or such other amount as the Central Bank may, from time to time, prescribe by regulation. |