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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 103

Effect of adoption order.

103.(1) In this Act

"the Act of 1896" means the Friendly Societies Act 1896;

"amendment of rule" includes a new rule and a resolution rescinding a rule;

"annual return" means the annual return which a registered society or branch
is required by section 36 to send to the registrar;

"branch" means any number of the members of a society, under the control of a
central body, having a separate fund administered by themselves or by a
committee or officers appointed by themselves, and bound to contribute to a
fund under the control of a central body;

"collecting society" has the meaning assigned to it by [Article 2(2) of the
Industrial Assurance (Northern Ireland) Order 1979];

"committee" means the committee of management or other directing body of a
society or branch;

"Companies Acts" means the Companies Act (Northern Ireland) 1960, any earlier
enactment for the like purposes which has been repealed and any law for the
like purpose which is or has been in force in Great Britain;

"exempt society" and "exempt branch" shall be construed in accordance with
section 24(4);

"meeting" includes, where the rules of a society or branch so allow, a meeting
of delegates appointed by members;

"the Minister" and "the Ministry" mean respectively the Minister and
the Ministry of Commerce;

"officer" includes any trustee, treasurer, secretary, or member of the
committee of management of a society or branch or any person appointed by the
society or branch to sue and be sued on its behalf;

"persons claiming through a member" includes the nominees of the member where
nomination is allowed;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations under this Act;

"property" extends to all property, whether real or personal, including books
and papers;

"qualified actuary" means an actuary having such qualifications as
the registrar may prescribe;

"registered rules", in relation to a society or branch, means the rules of the
society or branch registered or deemed to be registered under this Act as for
the time being in force after any amendment thereof so registered;

"registered society or branch" means a society or branch registered or deemed
to be registered under this Act;

"registrar" has the meaning assigned to it by section 96(1); and

"signed", in relation to a body corporate, means sealed.

(2) Any reference in this Act to a particular type of society shall be
construed in accordance with section 1(1).

(3) In this Act "year of account" in relation to a
registered society or branch, means, with respect to the year in which it is
first registered, the period beginning with the date of registration and
ending with 31st December of that year and, in any other case, a period of
twelve months ending with 31st December and

(a)"the current year of account", in relation to the appointment of an auditor
or auditors, means the year of account in which the question of that
appointment arises; and

(b)"the preceding year of account" means the year of account immediately
preceding the current year of account.

(4) Any reference in this Act to an enactment of the Parliament of the United
Kingdom passed after 3rd May 1921 shall be construed as a reference to that
enactment as from time to time amended and, where that enactment is repealed
and re-enacted, whether with or without amendment, by a subsequent enactment
of that Parliament, any reference in this Act to that enactment or a provision
thereof shall be construed as a reference to that subsequent enactment or, as
the case may be, the corresponding provision thereof.

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