Statutory Instruments
2017 No. 1307
Building Societies
The Building Societies (Restricted Transactions) (Amendment to the Limit on the Trade in Currencies) Order 2017
Made
19th December 2017
Laid before Parliament
20th December 2017
Coming into force
6th April 2018
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9A(12)(a) of the Building Societies Act 1986( 1 ), makes the following Order.
Citation and commencement
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Building Societies (Restricted Transactions) (Amendment to the Limit on the Trade in Currencies) Order 2017.
(2) This Order comes into force on 6th April 2018.
Amendment of section 9A of the Building Societies Act 1986
2. In subsection (3)(a) of section 9A of the Building Societies Act 1986 for “£100,000” substitute “£3 million”.
Mark Spencer
Andrew Griffiths
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
19th December 2017
1986 c. 53 ; section 9A was inserted by section 10 of the Building Societies Act 1997 (c. 32) .