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Welcome to the online page for the 'Registry of Credit Unions and Industrial and Provident Societies'.


Companies House now has responsibility for Northern Ireland based companies, however DETI still retains a Registry function for Credit Unions and Industrial & Provident Societies in Northern Ireland. This page is therefore dedicated to Credit Unions (CU) and Industrial & Provident Societies (IP) ONLY.


If you wish to search for, view or even download and print off a public document relating to a CU or IP please use the link which will take you to a specific search facility and follow the user guidance.


Please use the menu provided also if you require any further information such as Forms, Guidance, Legislation or links relating to this business sector. This information will continue to be reviewed and updated in due course.

Proposals for regulatory reform of credit unions in Northern Ireland

30 March 2010

This consultation seeks the views of stakeholders on the decision to transfer the regulation of credit unions in Northern Ireland from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to the Financial Services Authority. The transfer of regulation will protect credit union members in the event of a collapse of their credit union by giving access to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and the Financial Ombudsman Service.

This consultation also seeks views on associated changes to credit union legislation and regulation in Northern Ireland. These include whether the Northern Ireland legislation should be amended to give credit unions the same powers as are available to those in GB; and whether they should have specific powers enabling community investment and whether the registration function for Northern Ireland credit unions should also pass to the FSA.

All responses to this consultation should be submitted by 24 May 2010.

The document is available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website.

Proposals for regulatory reform of credit unions in Northern Ireland