The Credit Unions Act 1979 (Locality Common Bond Conditions) Order 2017 (SI 2017/1144) has been published, along with an explanatory memorandum.
The Order makes a change to section 1B(3)(a) of the Credit Unions Act 1979, by increasing the number of potential members of a credit union for the locality common bond from 2 million to 3 million.
The Order comes into force on 6 April 2018.