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5. For any purpose which shall be certified to be legal by
   Her Majesty's Attorney General of the said Colony, as a
   purpose to which the powers and facilities of this Act
   ought to be extended :

Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for any Society or
Branch established under this Act to assure the payment to or on
the death of any Member, or on any contingency or for any of the
purposes for which the payment of sums may be assured under this
Act, of any sum exceeding One Hundred Pounds, nor any annuity
exceeding Thirty Pounds per annum, nor a sum in sickness exceed-
ing Twenty one Shillings per week.

2. In all Societies established under the provisions of this Act,
   it shall not be lawful for the Trustees or other officers, or other per-
   son or persons who have the custody of the moneys of such Society,
   to assure a sum of money to be paid on the death of a child, whether
   a member of such Society or not, under the age of ten years, except
   the actual funeral expenses, not exceeding Three Pounds in case of
   such child, to be paid to the undertaker or person by whom the
   burial is conducted, and whose receipt alone shall be sufficient dis-
   charge to the Society; nor to pay any sum of money which may
   have been insured and become payable on the death of any Member
   thereof, or of the husband, wife, or child of any Member, unless
   the party applying for the same shall produce and deliver to the
   officer a certificate signed by a Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary,
   or Coroner, in the form B set forth in the Schedule to this Act
   annexed, except in such cases where from the nature of the circum-
   stances it is impossible to procure such certificate ; and if any offi-
   cer of such Society shall pay or cause to be paid such sum of
   money as aforesaid without such certificate as aforesaid, such
   officer shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Three Pounds, to
   be recoverable before any Resident Magistrate or any two or more
   Justices of the Peace sitting in Sessions in the District or nearest
   to the District or place where such Society or Branch is estab-
   lished, to be paid to the Benevolent Society established in the
   place or nearest to where the business of such Society or Branch
   is situated.

No sum to be paid on
death of child except
for funeral.

3. It shall be lawful for the persons intending to establish
   under the provisions of this Act a Friendly Society, or Branch
   thereof, to make or adopt Rules for the government and guidance of
   the same, and for the admission and guidance of Members, and to
   make such provision in the Rules as they shall think fit for or-
   daining, repealing, altering, or amending any Rules, and to impose
   reasonable fines and forfeitures on any Member offending against the
   regulations of the same, and to form a General Committee or
   Board of Management, and to delegate to the same all or any of
   the powers given by this Act to be executed, either with respect to
   the management of the Society or Branch, or the enactment
   amendment repeal or alteration of the Rules thereof, and in such
   Rules there shall be distinctly set forth—

4. The name and designation of such Society or Branch, and
   place where the business thereof is carried on, the whole

Power to frame rules
and appoint commit-
tee and officers.