1. The buildings and land enumerated in the Schedule hereunder written and the care and disposal thereof and the freehold thereof shall be and the same are hereby vested in the Governor of the Colony of Western Australia in fee simple for the public purposes of the said Colony.

2. This Order may be cited as " The Western Australia Military Lands Order, 1879."

FRIENDLY SOCIETY.

REGULATIONS, DATED JANUARY 1, 1897, MADE BY THE TREASURY
UNDER THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT, 1896, AND THE COLLECTING
SOCIETIES AND INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE COMPANIES ACT, 1896,
AS AMENDED BY REGULATIONS DATED JUNE 15, 1897, AND
JANUARY 1, AND JULY 1, 1903.*

1897, No. 6, as amended by No. 428, and 1903, Nos. 1, and 537

In pursuance of the powers vested in the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by the above-mentioned statutes, their Lordships have made and approved of the following Regulations in lieu of the Treasury Regulations, 1896,† which are hereby cancelled :

-The Registry Office.

(1.) Documents requiring authentication by the central office Friendly shall be authenticated by its seal, which shall bear the Royal Arms Societies Act, with the words "Registry of Friendly Societies" around or above, 1896, s. 2. and the words " Central Office" below. A document so authenticated shall be deemed to be a document signed by the registrar of friendly societies in England, the registrar of building societies in England, or the barrister appointed to certify the rules of savings banks or friendly societies, for the purposes of section 2 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896 (in these regulations termed the Act).

(2.) The Assistant Registrars for Scotland and Ireland respec- S. 4. tively shall keep records of all fees received by them under the Act or these regulations, and shall pay such fees at least twice a year into the Bank of England, to the cash account of Her Majesty's Paymaster-General for the credit of Registrars of friendly societies. They shall at the same time send to the Chief Registrar a list of the fees so paid, and he shall cause the amount thereof to be paid into Her Majesty's Exchequer.

II.-Registry of Societies.

(3.) Every application to register a society shall be in Form A. Ss. 8, 9. Where the society is a specially authorised society, to which only

*The Regulations are here reprinted as amended: the amending Regulations are printed at length in Statutory Rules and Orders, 1997, p. 231; 1903, pp. 847, 851.

† Statutory Rules and Orders, 1896, No. 18. 59 & 60 Vict c. 25.

S. 11.

S. 13.

S. 13.

certain specified provisions of the Act are to be extended, such specification shall be inserted in the acknowledgment of registry of the society or of any complete amendment of rules. Where the society combines with any specially authorised purpose any of the purposes specified in section 8 of the Act such society shall not in respect of any of its purposes be entitled to any privilege or exemption of the Act not contained in the provisions specified in the authority, but shall be subject in respect of every purpose, other than the specially authorised purpose, to all the duties and obligations of the Act whether contained in such specified provisions

or not.

(4.) The acknowledgment of registry of a specially authorised society shall be in Form A2.

(5.) An amendment of the rules of a society may be either-
(a.) A partial amendment, consisting of the addition of a
new rule or rules, or part of a rule or rules, to the
existing rules, or the substitution of a new rule or
rules, or part of a rule or rules, for any of the existing
rules, or any part thereof, or a rescission of any of the
existing rules, or any part thereof, without any
substitution, or more than one or all of these modes;

or

(b.) A complete amendment, consisting of the substitution of an entire set of rules for the existing set of rules, and bearing at the beginning the words "all previous rules rescinded.”

(6.) Every application to register a partial amendment of rules shall be in Form B., accompanied by a statutory declaration ** in Form C., and by a printed copy of the existing rules marked to show where the alterations occur, and what they are, and by the following documents :

(a.) If the partial amendment consists of the addition or
substitution of a new rule or rules, or part of a rule or
rules, two copies of such new or amended rule or rules.
or two copies of the whole of the rules with such new
rule or rules printed in italics or in such other dis-
tinctive form as the Registrar may require, each copy
being signed by three members and the secretary.
(b.) If the partial amendment consists of the rescission of any
of the rules without any substitution, two copies of
the resolution for such rescission, each copy being
signed by three members and the secretary.

(7.) Every application to registrar a complete amendment of rules shall be made in Form D., accompanied by a statutory declaration in Form C., and by a printed copy of the existing rules.

* Where proceedings are taken for cancelling registry under section 73 of the Act, no application or declaration is required for any amendment of rules whica may become necessary in connexion therewith.

† Or by an information; see additional Reg. (75) printed at p. 11 below.

and by two copies of the new rules, each copy being signed by three members and the secretary.

A Registrar may refuse to register a partial amendment of rules and require a complete amendment if in his opinion the condition of the registered rules renders it expedient, and may also require fair printed copies of rules or amendments of rules for registry.

(8.) An application to record in one part of the United Kingdom S. 14. § rules, or amendments of rules, registered in another, shall be made by the secretary or other officer of the society in Form E. or F., and shall be accompanied by two authenticated copies of such rules or amendments.

(9.) Rules or amendments of rules shall be recorded by writing s. 14. at the foot or end of each copy the word "recorded," and by affixing to the same the seal of the central office, or the signature of the Assistant Registrar for Scotland or Ireland as the case may be.

III.-Societies with Branches.

(10.) Every notice of the establishment and application for s. 18. registry of a branch shall be in Form Ab., signed by the secretary and three members of the branch and countersigned by the secretary of the society.

(11.) An application to register an amendment of branch rules S. 19 shall be made in Form Bb. or in Form Db., as the case may require, and may be made by an officer of the society, in which case the statutory declaration in support thereof must be made by the secretary of the branch; or by the secretary of the branch, in which case the statutory declaration must be made by an officer of the society.

(12.) The statutory declaration shall be in Form Cb.*

S. 19.

(13.) The certificate of secession or expulsion to be given by the S. 20. chief secretary or other principal officer of a society under s. 20 of the Act shall be in form G.

IV.-Consequences of Registry.

(14.) Notice of the situation of the registered office of a society S. 24. on first registry shall be deemed to be given by the rules. Every notice of a change in the situation of the registered office of a society or branch shall be sent to the Registrar within fourteen days after every such change in Forms H. and Hb. respectively.

(15.) The place of business of a society enrolled or certified S. 24. before the 1st January, 1876, as stated in the rules thereof, or in any notice of change duly sent to the Registrar, shall be deemed to be the registered office of the society until notice of change duly sent as herein provided is received by the Registrar. The registered

* But see additional Reg. (75) and consequent Form CʊI.