FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 11 Amendment of rules of society or branch.

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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 11

Amendment of rules of society or branch.

11.(1) Subject to subsection (2), any amendment of the rules of a
registered society or branch shall not be valid until the amendment has been
registered under this Act and for this purpose two copies of the amendment,
signed by three members and the secretary of the society or branch, as the
case may be, shall be sent to the registrar.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to a change in the situation of the
registered office of the society or branch or in the name of a society; but

(a)notice of any change in the situation of the registered office of the
society or branch shall be sent to the registrar and, in the case of a change
of the registered office of a branch, shall be sent to the registrar through
an officer appointed in that behalf by the society of which the branch forms
part; and

(b)a registered society may change its name by an amendment of its rules and
in no other manner but no amendment of the rules of a registered society which
purports to change the name of the society shall be registered under
section 12 unless the change has the approval in writing of the registrar; and

(c)where a notice is duly sent under paragraph (a), or where a change in the
name of a registered society is made in accordance with paragraph (b), the
change in the situation of the registered office of the society or branch or,
as the case may be, the change in the society's name shall be registered by
the registrar as an amendment of the rules of the society or of the branch, as
the case may be.

(3) A change in the name of a society shall not affect any right or obligation
of the society or of any member thereof, and any pending legal proceedings may
be continued by or against the trustees of the society, or any other officer
who may sue or be sued on behalf of the society, notwithstanding its new name.

(4) Notwithstanding anything in the rules of any registered society or branch,
the committee of the society or branch may, by resolution passed during the
appropriate period after the passing of this Act, make such amendments of the
rules as may be consequential on the provisions of this Act.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), the appropriate period after the
passing of this Act, in relation to any registered society or branch, shall be
whichever is the longer of the following two periods, that is to say

(a)a period of one year beginning with the date of the passing of this Act,
and

(b)a period beginning with the date of the passing of this Act and ending with
the date on which an amendment of the rules of that society or branch is first
registered after that date under section 12.

(6) Notwithstanding anything in section 12, after the end of one year
beginning with the date of the passing of this Act, the registrar shall not be
required to register any amendment of the rules of a society or branch unless
such consequential amendments of the rules of that society or branch as are
mentioned in subsection (4) either have been made before the application for
registration of that amendment or are to be effected by that amendment.

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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 11