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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 74

1960 c.22

74.(1) By a resolution passed by a majority of the members or delegates
present and entitled to vote at any general meeting, of which notice
specifying the intention to propose any such resolution has been duly given
according to the rules, a registered society may determine to become a branch
of any other registered society.

(2) If the rules of the society do not comply with all the provisions of
this Act in respect of the registration of branches, the meeting at which any
such resolution is passed as is referred to in subsection (1) may amend the
rules so as to bring the rules into compliance with this Act.

(3) Where such a resolution as is referred to in subsection (1) has been
passed at a general meeting of a registered society, there shall be sent to
the registrar

(a)a copy of the rules of the society marked to show the amendments, if any,
made at the meeting, and

(b)two copies of the resolution and of any such amendment of rules, each
signed by the chairman of the meeting and by the secretary of the society and
countersigned by the secretary of the society of which it is to become a
branch.

(4) If the registrar finds that the rules of a society, with or without any
such amendment as is referred to in subsections (2) and (3), comply with the
provisions of this Act, he shall

(a)without further request or notice, cancel the registration of the society
and register it as a branch of the other society referred to in the resolution
in question; and

(b)without further application or evidence, register any such
amendment of rules;

(5) Notwithstanding anything in section 80, no advertisement of any
cancellation of registration under this section shall be required.

(6) The rules of a society which becomes a branch under this section shall, so
far as they are not contrary to any express provision of this Act, and subject
to any such amendment thereof as is referred to in the preceding provisions of
this section, continue in force as the rules of the branch until amended.


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