Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT 1894

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Preamble
           Long Title

   1.      Short title and commencement  
   2.      Repeal  
   3.      Application of Act to existing societies, etc  
   4.      Interpretation  
   5.      The Registrar  
   6.      Function of Registrar  
   7.      Objections for which societies may be registered under this Act  
   7A.     Friendly societies’ dispensaries not precluded from trading  
   8.      Power to specially authorise societies  
   8A.     Validation of registration of certain societies  
   9.      Registry of societies  
   10.     Cancelling and suspension of registry  
   11.     Rules  
   12.     Duties of societies  
   13.     Powers exercisable by the Registrar in the event of the assets of a society or branch appearing insufficient to meets its liabilities  
   14.     Privileges of Societies  
   14A.    Powers of society  
   14B.    Expenditure authorised for certain purposes  
   14C.    Scheme for adjustment upon withdrawal by members  
   15.     Property and funds of Societies  
   16.     Power to dispose of land held by way of investment  
   17.     Power of trustees to transfer or take transfers of mortgages  
   18.     Power to provide for accumulation and withdrawal of surplus contributions  
   19.     Officers in charge of money  
   20.     Powers of Registrar for the investigation of the affairs of a society or branch  
   21.     Legal proceedings  
   22.     Decision of disputes in the manner provided by the rules  
   23.     Special powers of Registrar on application of members  
   24.     Special resolutions  
   25.     Dissolution of societies  
   26.     Societies with branches  
   27.     Power to registered societies to convert themselves into branches of other societies  
   28.     Penalties  
   29.     Power to societies to impose penalties on their officers and members  
   30.     Evidence  
   31.     Printed copies of rules in use in a society to be evidence  
   32.     Certificates of the appointment and retirement of trustees to be evidence  
   33.     Registrar’s certificate evidence of trustees  
   34.     Evidence of registration  
   35.     Persons in the military forces, etc., of the Commonwealth not to lose benefits  
   36.     Limitation of benefits  
   37.     Payments on death of children  
   38.     Power to societies to contribute to the funds or take part in the management of other societies without becoming branches thereof  
   39.     Forms of acknowledgement of registry of branches  
   40.     Descriptions of offences  
   41.     Appeal to general sessions  
   42.     Public auditors  
   43.     Where lands granted for benefit of societies for purposes of recreation a board of management to be formed  
   44.     Board to elect three trustees to hold lands  
   45.     Board may raise money on mortgage for improvements  
   46.     Legal Proceedings  
   47.     Governor may make regulations  
   48.     Misdemeanours, how punishable  
   49.     Reference to 27 Vic., No. 6 to be to this Act  
   50.     Saving liability of Her Majesty’s Government  
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