The Building Societies Act 1986 (Meetings) (Transitional Provisions) Order 1987
This Order applies to transitional meetings of a building society, transitional meetings being those held before its rules on notice of meetings and voting at meetings conform with the Building Societies Act 1986. Article 3 provides that voting and other proceedings at such meetings of a society will be valid provided that—the society sends notice to those to whom it would have been required to send notice had the 1986 Act not come into force and (where relevant) to borrowing members; andthe voting papers and instruments of proxy include the particulars which they would have been required to include had the 1986 Act not come into force.