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• Friendly Societies 
• PART I Preliminary
  • 1 Short title
  • 2 Interpretation
• PART II Registrar of Friendly Societies
  • 3 Registrar
  • 4 Minister may fix scale of fees to be charged by Registrar
  • 5 Expenses to be borne from public funds
  • 6 Societies securing annuities or payments to have tables certified by the Auditor-General
  • 7 Recording of documents
  • 8 Documentary evidence
  • 9 Half-yearly reports by Registrar
• PART III Registration of Friendly Societies
  • 10 Societies incorporated by Act not to be registered
  • 11 Societies registered under previous legislation deemed registered under this Act
  • 12 Societies which may be registered
  • 13 Penalty for non-registration
  • 14 Conditions for registration
  • 15 Identical or deceptive similarity of name not allowed
  • 16 Dividing societies may be registered
  • 17 Acknowledgment of registry
  • 18 Appeals from refusal to register
  • 19 Acknowledgment to be issued if appeal allowed
  • 20 Effect of acknowledgment of registry
  • 21 Registry of societies with branches
  • 22 Notices of establishment of new branches
  • 23 Application of previous provisions to branches
  • 24 Registration of branches
  • 25 Name of seceding or expelled branch
  • 26 Contributions from one society to another
• PART IV Powers, Privileges and Duties of Friendly Societies
  • 27 Registered office
  • 28 Appointment of trustees
  • 29 Audit
  • 30 Annual returns
  • 31 Annual statement to be sent to Registrar
  • 32 Quinquennial valuation
  • 33 Copy of last balance sheet, etc., to be hung up at registered office
  • 34 Auditor-General may require pre-payment of fees according to scale to be fixed by the Minister
  • 35 Books, accounts and all necessary things to be sent to Auditor-General
  • 36 Priority on death, bankruptcy, etc., of officer
  • 37 Membership of minors
  • 38 Evidence of age of proposed member or dependant to be produced
  • 39 Society may subscribe to hospitals
  • 40 Right to supply of copies of the rules
  • 41 Right to supply of copies of annual return
  • 42 Inspection of books by members
  • 43 Limitations of benefit
  • 44 Accumulating surplus of contributions for member’s use
  • 45 Investment of funds
  • 46 Loans to assured members
  • 47 Loans may be made out of separate loan fund
  • 48 Holding of land
  • 49 Vesting of property
  • 50 Devolution on death
  • 51 Description in legal proceedings
  • 52 Discharge of mortgages by receipt endorsed
  • 53 Registration of receipt
  • 54 Security to be given
  • 55 Accounts of officers
  • 56 Power of nomination for sums not exceeding $480
  • 57 Repealed by 1979—32....
  • 58 Payments under s.56 valid
  • 59 Distribution of sums not exceeding $240
  • 60 Certificate of burial to be required before payment
  • 61 Payments on death of children under ten years
• PART V Disputes
  • 62 Disputes
• PART VI Change of Name, Amalgamation and Conversion of Societies
  • 63 Change of name
  • 64 Amalgamation of societies
  • 65 Conversion of societies into companies
  • 66 Saving of right of creditors
  • 67 Validity of special resolution for amalgamation and transfer of engagements
  • 68 Remedy of dissatisfied members
  • 69 Confirmation of amalgamation
  • 70 Special resolution and proceedings which may be taken thereon
  • 71 Registration of special resolutions
  • 72 Provisions not applicable to branches
  • 73 Conversion of registered societies into branches
• PART VII Inspection
  • 74 Inspectors
• PART VIII Cancellation and Suspension of Registry and Dissolution of Friendly Societies
  • 75 Cancellation and suspension
  • 76 Dissolution
  • 77 Dissolution by award
  • 78 Savings
• PART IX Offences, Penalties and Legal Proceedings
  • 79 Offences
  • 80 Offences by societies also to be offences by officers
  • 81 Delivery of untrue rules
  • 82 Punishment of fraud or misappropriation
  • 83 Penalty for falsification
  • 84 Penalties for ordinary offences
  • 85 Recovery of penalties
  • 86 Where offences are to be prosecuted
  • 87 Legal proceedings
• PART X Miscellaneous
  • 88 Regulations
  • 89 Evidence of documents