ANNUAL RETURN AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CHIEF REGISTRAR-continued. the society supplies gratuitously every member or person interested with a Balance Sheet or other document, duly audited, containing the same particulars as to the receipts and expenditure, funds and effects of the society as are contained in the annual return. (2) Keep a copy of the last annual Balance Sheet for the time being, and of the last quinquennial valuation for the time being, together with the report of the auditors, if any, always hung up in a conspicuous place at the registered office of the society. Offences. (3) It shall be an offence under this Act if any registered society or any officer or member thereof (a) Fails to give any notice, send any return or document, or do or allow to be done, any act or thing which the society, officer, or person is by this Act required to give, send, do, or allow to be done. (b) Wilfully neglects or refuses to do any act, or to furnish any information required for the purposes of this Act by the chief or any other registrar, or other person authorised under this Act, or does any act or thing forbidden by this Act. (c) Makes a return, or wilfully furnishes any information, in any respect false or insufficient. Offence by societies to be also offences by officers, &c (4) Every offence by a society under this Act shall be deemed to have been also committed by every officer of the same bound by the rules thereof to fulfil any duty whereof such offence is a breach, or if there be no such officer, then by every member of the committee of management of the same, unless such member be proved to have been ignorant of or to have attempted to prevent the commission of such offence; and every default under this Act constituting an offence, if continued, constitutes a new offence in every week during which the same continues. Returns to be in prescribed form. (5) Every annual or other return, abstract of valuation, and other document required for the purposes of this Act, shall be made in such form, and shall contain such particulars, as the chief registrar prescribes. ANNUAL RETURN AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CHIEF REGISTRAR-Continued. Penalties. 32. With respect to penalties under this Act, the following provisions shall have effect : Penalty for falsification. (1) If any person wilfully makes, orders, or allows to be made, any entry, erasure in, or omission from any Balance Sheet of a registered society, or any contribution or collecting book, or any return or document required to be sent, produced or delivered for the purposes of this Act, with intent to falsify the same, or to evade any of the provisions of this Act, he is liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, recoverable at the suit of the chief or any assistant registrar, or of any person aggrieved. Penalties for ordinary offences. (2) Every society, officer, or member of a society, or other person guilty of an offence under this Act for which no penalty is expressly provided herein is liable to a penalty of not less than one pound, and not more than five pounds, recoverable at the suit of the chief or any assistant registrar, or of any person aggrieved. Recovery of Penalties. (3) All penalties imposed by this Act, or to be imposed by any regulations under the same, or by the rules of a registered society, are recoverable in a Court of summary jurisdiction. ANNUAL RETURN AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CHIEF REGISTRAR-continued. N.B.-Societies to which this Form applies need not fill up Form A. FORM B.-For Societies whose members pay more than one contribution for Benefits. are made for Fund) RECEIPTS. BENEFIT FUNDS. £ s d Sickness Pay weeks pay to pay (lasting by rules weeks pay to weeks) members on re duced pay (1st period lasting weeks) members on re (a) Where levies Entrance Fees (not appropriated to Management Contributions (a) for Sickness (b) Contributions for Sums at Death (b) contributions, the Contributions for Annuities contributions and Contributions for Endowments bnefit should be separately stated. (b) If under Table, the amount under each Table should be Contributions for Old Age Pay [where separate] [where separate] Contributions for Lying-in [where separate] separate] Contributions for Distress Relief [where separate] of Act] Contributions for (c) Contributions for Contributions for Fines not appropriated to Management Fund separately stated. Interest on Investments of Benefit Funds Other Receipts (if any) (d) Sums at D'th weeks pay to duced pay (2nd period lasting weeks) (h) members and children of mem bers above 10 years of age wives [or husbands] of members children under 5 years of age children between 5 and 10 years of age (h) If any further reductions, they should be stated separately. This amount must Loans out of separate Loan Fund [under s. 18 (2) of Act] not be included in total expenditure. Total £ Total £ ANNUAL RETURN AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CHIEF REGISTRAR-FORM B-continued. the Society was registered before 23rd July 1855, and has no separate Management Fund provided for in its rules, state the fact. 486 Dr. ANNUAL RETURN AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CHIEF REGISTRAR-FORM B-continued. (n) State them separately. (0) State in whose hands. (p) Specify them. Signature of Treasurer or one of the Trustees. Total Signature of Secretary. Total £ residing at * State Postal Address. Public Auditor: or The undersigned, having had access to all the Books and Accounts of the Society, and having examined the foregoing General Statement, and verified and the same with the Accounts and Vouchers relating thereto, now sign the same as found to be correct, duly vouched, and in accordance with law. 1895. * This term means only a Public Auditor appointed under the Friendly Societies Act. Auditors. Date report to the Society, of which a copy is to be sent to the Registrar with this Statement. If in any respect these accounts are incorrect, unvouched, or not in accordance with law, the Auditors are not to sign as above, but are to make a special |