FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970

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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 80

1979 NI 12

80.(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the registrar may,
by writing under his hand, cancel the registration of a society in the
following cases, namely,

(a)if he thinks fit, at the request of the society, to be evidenced in such
manner as he may direct;

(b)on proof to his satisfaction that an acknowledgment of registration has
been obtained by fraud or mistake;

(c)on proof to his satisfaction that the society exists for an unlawful
purpose, or has wilfully and after notice from the registrar violated any of
the provisions of this Act or of any enactment repealed thereby, or has ceased
to exist.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section, in any case falling
within paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (1), in which
the registrar might cancel the registration of a society, he may, by writing
under his hand

(a)suspend the registration of that society for any term not exceeding three
months; and

(b)from time to time renew any such suspension for a further term not
exceeding three months.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), not less than two months' previous notice in
writing specifying briefly the ground of the proposed cancellation or
suspension shall be given to a society by the registrar before its
registration is cancelled or suspended and if before the expiry of the period
of the notice a society duly lodges an appeal under section 81, the society's
registration shall not be cancelled before the date of the determination or
the abandonment of the appeal.

(4) Subsection (3) shall not apply where the registration of a society is
cancelled

(a)at its own request; or

(b)under section 72(3); or

(c)under section 74(4).

(5) Where before the expiry of the period of a notice under subsection (3) of
the proposed cancellation of a society's registration, the society duly lodges
an appeal against the proposed cancellation under section 81, the registrar
may by writing under his hand suspend the society's registration from the
expiry of that period until the date of the determination or abandonment of
the appeal.

(6) Where the registration of a society has been cancelled or suspended,
notice shall forthwith be advertised in the Belfast Gazette and in some
newspaper in general circulation in the neighbourhood of the society's
registered office.

(7) Where the registration of a society has been cancelled under subsection
(1) or suspended under subsection (2) or subsection (5), then, as the case may
require,

(a)from the time of the cancellation, or

(b)from the time of the suspension until the period of that suspension and any
renewal thereof under subsection (2)(b) ends (whether on the expiry of that
period or on a successful appeal under section 81 from such a renewal),

Power of registrar to require production of documents.

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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 80