(1)Subject to any other provision of this Act or regulations under it, any record to be kept by a building society may be kept in any manner.
(2)Where any such record is not kept by making entries in a bound book, but by some other means, adequate precautions shall be taken for guarding against falsification and facilitating its discovery.
(3)The power in subsection (1) above includes power to keep the record by recording matters otherwise than in legible form so long as the recording is capable of being reproduced in a legible form; and any duty imposed by or under this Act to allow inspection of, or to furnish a copy of, the record or any part of it is to be treated as a duty to allow inspection of, or to furnish, a reproduction of the recording or of the relevant part of it in a legible form.
(4)The Commission may, by regulations made with the consent of the Treasury, make such provision in addition to subsection (3) above as it considers appropriate in connection with such records as are kept otherwise than in legible form; and the regulations may make modifications of this Act so far as it relates to the records of building societies.
(5)If default is made in complying with this section the building society shall be liable on summary conviction—
(a)to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, and
(b)in the case of a continuing offence, to an additional fine not exceeding £100 for every day during which the offence continues,
and so shall any officer who is also guilty of the offence.