Num. 25. 873

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1910.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1910.

Regulations under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1909.”

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of March, 1910.

Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by “The Friendly Societies Act, 1909,” His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulations set forth hereunder respecting registration and other procedure under the said Act, the seal to be used by the Registrar for such registration, the duties and functions of the Registrar, and the inspection of documents kept by the Registrar under the said Act, and generally for carrying into full effect the provisions of such Act.

REGULATIONS.
Application to register Societies.
Sec. 11.

1. EVERY application to register a society under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1909” (in these regulations termed “the Act”), shall be in Form No. 1 in the Schedule to these regulations, and shall be sent to the Registrar of Friendly Societies for the Dominion of New Zealand (hereinafter termed “the Registrar”).

Where the society is a specially authorised one to which only certain specified provisions of the Act are to be extended, such specification shall be inserted in the acknowledgment of registry of the society, or of any complete amendment of rules.

The references to forms throughout these regulations relate to the forms contained in the Schedule hereto.

Societies with Branches.
Sec. 18.

2. Every notice of the establishment and application for registry of a branch shall be in Form No. 2 or No. 3, as the case may be, signed by the secretary and three members of the branch and countersigned by the secretary of the society.

Secession and Expulsion of Branch.
Sec. 26.

3. The certificate of secession or expulsion to be given by the secretary or other principal officer of a society under section 26 of the Act shall be in Form No. 4.

Rules of Societies and Branches.
Sec. 28.

4. An amendment of the rules of a society may be either—
   (a.) A partial amendment, consisting of the addition of a new rule or rules, or part of a rule or rules, to the existing rules, or the substitution of a new rule or rules, or part of a rule or rules, for any of the existing rules, or any part thereof, or a rescission of any of the existing rules, or any part thereof, without any substitution, or more than one, or all, of these modes; or,
   (b.) A complete amendment, consisting of the substitution of an entire set of rules for the existing set of rules.

5. An application to register a partial amendment of the rules of a society must be made by the secretary of the society in Form No. 5 annexed hereto, and must be sent to the Registrar, accompanied by a statutory declaration, in Form No. 6 annexed hereto, and in the case of a branch the application must be in Form No. 7 and declaration in Form No. 8. There must also be forwarded a printed copy of the existing rules marked to show were the alterations occur, and what they are, and by the following documents :—
   (a.) If the partial amendment consists of the addition or substitution of a new rule or rules, two copies of such rule or rules, each signed by three members and the secretary.