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Trustees may

subscribe to a Hospital or Provident Institution.

As to the De

termination of Disputes according to the Rules.

In what Cases

by the County Court.

Order of

how enforced.

Friendly Societies.

XXXIX. The Trustees of any Friendly Society may, out of the Funds thereof, subscribe to any Hospital, Infirmary, Charitable or other Provident Institution, such annual or other Sum as may be agreed upon by the Committee of Management, or by a Majority of the Members at a Meeting called for that Purpose, in consideration of any Member of such Society, his Wife, Child, or other Person nominated, being eligible to receive the Benefits of such Hospital or other Institution, according to the Rules thereof.

XL. Every Dispute between any Member or Members of any Society established under this Act or any of the Acts hereby repealed, or any Person claiming through or under a Member, or under the Rules of such Society, and the Trustee, Treasurer, or other Officer, or the Committee thereof, shall be decided in manner directed by the Rules of such Society, and the Decision so made shall be binding and conclusive on all Parties, without Appeal : Provided that where the Rules of any Society established under any of the Acts hereby repealed shall have directed Disputes to be referred to Justices, such Disputes shall, from and after the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, be referred to and decided by the County Court as herein-after mentioned.

XLI. In all Friendly Societies established under this Act or any of the said repealed Acts, all Applications for the Removal of any Trustee, or for any other Relief, Order, or Direction, or for the Settlement of Disputes that may arise or may have arisen in any Society the Rules of which do not prescribe any other Mode of settling such Disputes, or to enforce the Decision of any Arbitrators, or to hear or determine any Dispute, if no Arbitrator shall have been appointed or if no Decision shall be made by the said Arbitrators within Forty Days after Application has been made by the Member or Person claiming through or under a Member or under the Rules of the Society, shall be made to the County Court of the District within which the usual or principal Place of Business of the Society shall be situate; and such Court shall, upon the Application of any Person interested in the Matter, entertain such Application, and give such Relief, and make such Orders and Directions in relation to the Matter of such Application, as herein-after mentioned, or as may now be given or made by the Court of Chancery in respect either of its ordinary or its special or statutory Jurisdiction; and the Decision of such County Court upon and in relation to such Application as aforesaid shall not be subject to any Appeal: Provided always, that in Scotland the Sheriff within his County, and in Ireland the Assistant Barrister within his District, shall have the same Jurisdiction as is hereby given to the Judge of a County Court.

XLII. In all Cases where the Order of such County Court shall County Court, be for the Payment of Money, the same may be enforced in the same Manner as the ordinary Judgments of such Court are enforced; but where the Order of the said Court shall be for the doing of some Act, not being for the Payment of Money, it shall be lawful for the Judge of such County Court in his said Order to order the Party to do such Act, or that in default of his doing

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it he shall pay a certain Sum of Money; and in case he refuse or neglect to do the Act required, upon Demand in that Behalf, the Sum of Money or Penalty in the said Order may then be recovered in the same Manner as a Judgment for Debt or Damages in such Court; and it shall not be lawful to remove the same by Certiorari or other Writ or Process to any Superior Court of Record.

ceedings in this respect.

XLIII. Provided, however, That the Lord Chancellor may make Lord Chancelsuch Orders for regulating the Proceedings by and before the lor may make Judges of County Courts under this Act as he may think fit; and Orders for reguin Scotland the Court of Session shall have the like Power by Act lating the Proof Sederunt as regards Proceedings before Sheriffs under this Act; and, subject to such Orders and Acts of Sederunt respectively, such Judges and Sheriffs may regulate the Proceedings before them respectively so as to render them as summary and inexpensive as conveniently may be.

In the Case of

Societies whose

Rules are not

certified, Disputes between

of certified Societies.

XLIV. In the Case of any Friendly Society established for any of the Purposes mentioned in Section IX. of this Act, or for any Purpose which is not illegal, having written or printed Rules, whose Rules have not been certified by the Registrar, provided a Copy of such Rules shall have been deposited with the Registrar, the Society and every Dispute between any Member or Members of such Society, its own Memand the Trustees, Treasurer, or other Officer, or the Committee of bers to be setsuch Society, shall be decided in manner herein-before provided tled as in Cases with respect to Disputes, and the Decision thereof, in the Case of Societies to be established under this Act, and the Sections in this Act provided for such Decision, and also the Section in this Act which enacts a Punishment in case of Fraud or Imposition by an Officer, Member, or Person, shall be applicable to such uncertified Societies: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to confer on any such Society whose Rules shall not have been certified by the Registrar, or any of the Members or Officers of such Society, any of the Powers, Exemptions, or Facilities of this Act, save and except as in and by this Section is expressly provided.

made.

XLV. The Trustees of Friendly Societies established under this Returns to the Act or under any of the repealed Acts, or the Officer thereof Registrar, when appointed to prepare Returns, shall, once in every Year, in the and how to be Months of January, February, or March, transmit to the Registrar a General Statement of the Funds and Effects of such Society during the past Twelve Months, or a Copy of the last annual Report of such Society, and shall also, within Three Months after the Expiration of the Month of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and so again within Three Months after the Expiration of every Five Years succeeding, transmit to the said Registrar a Return of the Rate or Amount of Sickness and Mortality experienced by such Society within the preceding Five Years, in such Form as shall be prepared by the said Registrar, and an Abstract of the same shall be laid before Parliament; and the Registrar shall also lay before Parliament every Year a Report of his Proceedings in his Office of Registrar, and of the principal Matters transacted by Friendly Societies which have come under his Cognizance during the past Year. XLVI. And

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Certain Societies established for granting annual Payments

to Nominees before the Year

1850 to have Privileges of this Act.

Extra Coutribution may be

demanded of a Member serving in the Militia.

Act to apply to Societies constituted under the Industrial

Societies Act, 1852.

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Friendly Societies.

XLVI. ' And whereas under the Provisions of the Acts hereby repealed, or some of them, certain Associations or Societies have been formed in England and Ireland for the provident and charitable Purpose of securing annual Payments to the Nominees of the Members thereof, contingent upon the Death of such Members, and have invested their Funds in the Manner pro'vided by such Acts, and Doubts may arise whether such Associations or Societies will be entitled to the Exemptions and Privileges by this Act conferred in the event of such annual Payments amounting in the aggregate to more than Thirty Pounds; and it is expedient to remove such Doubts, and to give Protection to 'such Associations or Societies, and to the Funds thereof:' Be it therefore enacted, That notwithstanding anything in this Act contained to the contrary, all such Associations or Societies as were founded and subsisting under the Provisions of the said Acts previously to the Fifteenth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty, shall enjoy the Exemptions and Privileges by this Act conferred on Societies to be established under the Provisions of this Act as fully as if they had been registered and certified under this Act, and notwithstanding that the contingent annual Payments to which the Nominees of the present or future Members of such Associations or Societies may become entitled shall exceed in the aggregate the Sum of Thirty Pounds.

XLVII. In any Case where the Rules of any Society already enrolled or certified have provided that a Member shall be deprived of any Benefit by reason of his Enrolment or Service in the Militia, it shall be lawful for the Trustees of such Society to require of any Member a Contribution exceeding the Rate of Contribution hitherto payable by such Member, to an Amount not exceeding One Tenth of such Rate, during the Time such Member shall be serving out of the United Kingdom, or to suspend all Claim of such Member to any Benefits of such Society, and all Claim of the Society to any Contributions payable by such Member, during the Time he may be serving in the Militia out of the United Kingdom, provided that such Suspension shall cease so soon as the said Member shall return to the United Kingdom, and he shall thereupon be replaced on the same Footing as before he went abroad with the Regiment to which he belongs.

XLVIII. All the Provisions of this Act shall apply to all Societies constituted under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1852, in the same Manner as the Laws in force relating to and Provident Friendly Societies at the Date of the passing of the said Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1852, are by the said last-mentioned Act directed to apply to Societies constituted thereunder; and the Limitation herein-before contained of the Amount of Annuities and Sums payable on the Death of any Person, or on any other Contingency, in the Case of Societies established under this Act, shall apply to all Societies constituted under the said Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1852.

Interpretation of "Society."

XLIX. The Word " Society " shall extend to and include every Branch of a Society, by whatever Name it may be designated.

L. This

Friendly Societies.

L. This Act shall extend to Great Britain and Ireland, and the Extent of Act. Channel Isles, and the Isle of Man.

LI. This Act shall commence and take effect from the First Day Commencement of of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

Act.

SCHEDULES referred to by the foregoing Act.

Reference to Act.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

Title of Act.

Extent of Repeal.

An Act for the Encouragement and The whole Act.
Relief of Friendly Societies.

An Act for more effectually carrying The whole Act.
into execution an Act made in the
Thirty-third Year of the Reign of
His present Majesty, intituled "An
"Act for the Encouragement and
"Relief of Friendly Societies," and
for extending so much of the Powers
thereof as relates to the framing
Rules and Regulations for the better
Management of the Funds of such
Societies, and the Appointment of
Treasurers to other Institutions of
a charitable Nature.

An Act for the Encouragement and The whole Act.
Relief of Friendly Societies.

An Act for enabling Friendly Societies
intended to be established under an
Act passed in the Thirty-third Year
of the Reign of His present Majesty
to rectify Mistakes made in the
Registry of their Rules.

The whole Act.

An Act to explain and render more The whole Act.
effectual an Act passed in the Parlia-
ment of Ireland, in the Thirty-sixth
Year of His present Majesty's Reign
for the Encouragement and Relief
of Friendly Societies.

An Act to amend an Act made in the
Thirty-third Year of His present
Majesty for the Encouragement and
Relief of Friendly Societies.

The whole Act.

An Act for further Protection and En- The whole Act. couragement of Friendly Societies,

and for preventing Frauds and Abuses

therein.

Friendly Societies.

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Title of Act.

An Act for consolidating and amending
the Laws relating to Conveyances
and Transfers of Estates and Funds
vested in Trustees who are Infants,
Idiots, Lunatics, or Trustees of un-
sound Mind, or who cannot be com-
pelled or refuse to act; and also
the Laws relating to Stocks and
Securities belonging to Infants,
Idiots, Lunatics, and Persons of un-
sound Mind.

An Act to consolidate and amend the
Laws relating to Friendly Societies.
An Act to amend an Act of the Tenth
Year of His late Majesty King
George the Fourth, by extending
the Time within which pre-existing
Societies must conform to the Pro-
visions of that Act.

An Act to amend an Act of the Tenth
Year of His late Majesty King George
the Fourth, to consolidate and amend
the Laws relating to Friendly So-

cieties.

An Act to explain and amend the Acts
relating to Friendly Societies.

Extent of Repeal.

So much of Section 11. as relates to Friendly Societies.

The whole Act.

The whole Act.

The whole Act.

The whole Act.

An Act to amend the Laws relating The whole Act. to Friendly Societies.

An Act to consolidate and amend the

Laws relating to Friendly Societies.
An Act to continue and amend an
Act passed in the Fourteenth Year
of the Reign of Her present Majesty,
to consolidate and amend the Laws
relating to Friendly Societies.
An Act to amend the Laws relating to
the Investments of Friendly So-
cieties.

An Act to continue an Act of the
Twelfth Year of Her present Ma-
jesty, for amending the Laws relating
to Savings Banks in Ireland, and to
authorize Friendly Societies to invest
the whole of their Funds in Savings
Banks.

The whole Act.

The whole Act.

The whole Act.

Section 2.

An Act to continue and amend the The whole Act.
Acts now in force relating to Friendly

Societies.

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