FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 27 Notice of resolutions relating to appointment and removal of auditors.

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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 27

Notice of resolutions relating to appointment and removal of auditors.

27.(1) Subject to subsection (4), a resolution at a general meeting of a
registered society or branch

(a)appointing another person as auditor in place of a retiring qualified
auditor, or

(b)providing expressly that a retiring auditor shall not be re-appointed,

(2) Where notice of the intention to move any such resolution has been given
under subsection (1) to a society or branch which is required by its rules to
give notice to its members of the meeting at which the resolution is to be
moved, the society or branch shall, if it is practical to do so, give them
notice of the resolution at the same time and in the same manner as it gives
notice of the meeting.

(3) Where notice of the intention to move any such resolution has been given
to a registered society or branch under subsection (1), and that society or
branch does not give notice of the resolution under subsection (2), it shall
give notice of the resolution to its members not less than 14 days before the
meeting at which the resolution is to be moved either by advertisement in a
newspaper having an appropriate circulation or in any other way allowed by the
rules of the society or branch.

(4) Where

(a)for any of the reasons mentioned in section 26(2), an intended resolution
to appoint some person or persons in place of a retiring qualified auditor
cannot be proceeded with at the meeting, and

(b)by the rules of the registered society or branch an auditor can only be
appointed by a resolution passed at a general meeting after notice of the
intended resolution has been given to the society before the meeting,

(5) Any provision in this section which requires notice to be given to the
members of a society or branch shall be construed, in the case of a meeting of
delegates appointed by members as requiring notice to be given to the
delegates so appointed.

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