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Records relating to the Regulation of Loan Societies

Catalogue reference: Division within FS

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Division within FS

Records relating to the regulation of loan societies. Loan societies are responsible for the establishment of funds for making small loans.Statutory documents of loan societies submitted to the Registry are in FS 9, FS 19 and FS 22

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Division within FS

Title
Records relating to the Regulation of Loan Societies
Date

1840-1970

Description

Records relating to the regulation of loan societies. Loan societies are responsible for the establishment of funds for making small loans.

Statutory documents of loan societies submitted to the Registry are in FS 9, FS 19 and FS 22

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

3 series

Administrative / biographical background
Loan Societies

Under the Loan Societies Act 1840 certification of a body as a loan society is obtained by submitting its rules to the registrar. The object of a certified loan society is the establishment of a fund for making loans, not exceeding £15 and repayable by instalments, to 'the industrious classes'. Such a society is exempt from the provisions of the Moneylenders Acts and from stamp duty. The number of such societies has been decreasing for many years and their total membership and business transacted have also declined.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1186/

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Records relating to the Regulation of Loan Societies