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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 64 



64.(1) Subject to section 65, every dispute between

(a)a member or person claiming through a member or under the rules of a
registered society or branch, and the society or branch or an officer thereof,
or

(b)any person aggrieved who has ceased to be a member of a
registered society or branch, or any person claiming through such an aggrieved
person, and the society or branch or an officer thereof, or

(c)any registered branch of a society or branch and the society or branch of
which it is a registered branch, or

(d)an officer of any such registered branch and the society or branch of which
it is a registered branch, or

(e)any two or more registered branches of any society or branch, or any
officers thereof,

(2) An application for the enforcement of such a decision as is referred to in
subsection (1) may be made to the county court.

(3) Where the rules of a registered society or branch direct that disputes
shall be referred to justices, the dispute shall be determined by a court of
summary jurisdiction or, if the parties thereto consent, by the county court.

(4) In this section, the expression "dispute",

(a)includes any dispute arising on the question whether a member or person
aggrieved is entitled to be, or to continue to be, a member or to be
reinstated as a member, but

(b)in the case of a person who has ceased to be a member does not (except as
provided in paragraph (a)) include any dispute other than one on a question
between him and the society or branch, or an officer thereof, which arose
whilst he was a member, or arises out of his previous relation as a member to
that society or branch.

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