Building Societies Act, 1989

Signing of balance sheet.

81.—(1) Every balance sheet of a building society shall be signed on behalf of the board of directors by 2 of the directors (other than the chief executive) and by the chief executive of the society.

(2) There shall be annexed to every balance sheet of a society the income and expenditure account, the statement of the source and application of funds and the group accounts, if any, and the auditors' report and the directors' report shall be attached thereto, and any account and statement so annexed shall be approved by the board of directors before the balance sheet is signed on their behalf and the date of their approval of these documents shall be endorsed on the balance sheet.

(3) A society which, and any person who, issues, circulates or publishes a balance sheet that has not been signed as required by subsection (1) or does not have annexed to it or attached to it the documents required by subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and so shall every person who was a director at the time of default.