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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 4

Application for registration where society has branches.

4.(1) Where a society has branches, the application for registration shall be
accompanied by a list of all the branches together with an application under
section 5 for the registration of each branch whose registered office is to be
situate in Northern Ireland.

(2) A registered society which establishes a new branch shall send to
the registrar under the hand of the secretary of the society notice of the
establishment of the new branch and, if the registered office of the new
branch is to be situate in Northern Ireland, the notice shall be accompanied
by an application under section 5 for the registration of the new branch.

(3) A branch of a registered society, other than of a specially authorised
society, may be registered under this Act but shall not be so registered for
any purpose which is not a purpose specified in the rules of the society of
which it is a branch.

(4) A branch shall not be registered under this Act unless

(a)the rules of the branch contain provisions in respect of the several
matters mentioned in Part I of Schedule 2 applicable to all branches and, if a
branch of a friendly society or cattle insurance society, also contain
provisions in respect of the several matters mentioned in Part II of that
Schedule applicable to such a branch; and

(b)the place which under the rules of the branch is to be the registered
office of the branch is situate in Northern Ireland.


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