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12.* The keeping separate accounts of all moneys received or paid on account of every particular fund or benefit assured, for which a separate table of contributions payable shall have been adopted, and the keeping separate account of the expenses of management [fand of medical and surgical attendance, including medicine and medical and surgical requisites], and of all contributions on account thereof, are provided for in Rule No. [State number]. 13.+ Returns to the Registrar of the sickness aud mortality of the society are provided for in Rule No. [State number]. 11. A valuation once at least in every five years of the assets and liabilities of the society, including the estimated risks and contributions, is provided for in Rule No. [State number]. 15. Provision for the voluntary dissolution of the society by consent of not less than five-sixths in value ofthe members, and of every person for the time being entitled to any benefit from the funds of the society, unless his claim be first satisfied or adequately provided for, is made in Rule No. [State number]. 16. The right of one-fifth of the total number of members [§or of 100 members if the society have 1,000 and not exceeding 10,000, or of 500 members if the society have more than 10,000] to apply to the Registrar for an investigation of tho affairs of the society, or for winding up the same, is provided for in Rule No. [State number]. 17.|| It being intended to assure to the members or some of tliem a certain annuity, the tables of contributions for such assurance are certified by , Esquire, an actuary qualified to give such certificate under section 10 ofthe above-mentioned Act. 18. 1 The provisions of section 31 of the above-mentioned Act are contained in Rule No. [State number]. With this application arc sent — (a.) Two printed [or written] copies ofthe registered rules : (b.) Two printed [or written] copies of the new rules proposed by way of complete amendment [**together with the tables of contributions for annuities certified as aforesaid], signed by the applicant and three members of the society : (c.) A statutory declaration of an officer of the society that the amendment now submitted for registry has been duly made by the society, and that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the same is not contrary to the provisions of the above-mentioned Act in that behalf. , Secretary. Registered Office, Date: day of ,18 . [If the society intends to avail itself nf s. 15 (2) as to the holding of land, s. 15 (7) as to discharge of •mortgages by receipt indorsed, s. 16 as to loans to members, s. 17 as to accumulating surplus of contributions for members' use, or s. IS as to security by officers, rules for those purposes must be made, and it should be stated in what rules this has been done.]

SCHEDULE V. Memorandum for the Information and Guidance of Friendly Societies. TnE attention of members of friendly societies is directed to the provisions of " Tho Friendly Societies Act Amendment Act, 1878." The second section of the Act, by repealing that portion of the Act of 1877 which provided that amendments of rules must be gazetted before they became valid, enables the Eegistrar to receive as amendments of rules a complete sot of new rules. It will, however, bo gathered from the new Regulations mado after the passing of this Act that an application to register a complete set of new rules must be mado in a form similar to that for an original registration, as it is still required that the amended rules shall provide for the matters specified iv Schedule 11. to the Act of 1877. It is open to any society, in terms of section 12 of the Amendment Act, if the general laws of the order to which the society belongs make provision for any of the matters specified in the said Schedule, to refer in their rules to the said general laws instead of making special provision in respect thereof by rules ; but it will, in that case, be necessary that the rules should specially refer to the general law making the requisite provision, as in the following example: — Rule No. —. The conditions under which a branch may secede from the society are provided for by General Law No. —. In making au application for the registry of a set of rules the number of the rule which refers to the general law must be quoted in the application —not the general law itself. For the general laws of an order (the central body of which is outside s^ew Zealand) are not, as such, registrable ; but if a rule refers to any general law, the general law so referred to can be read as explanatory of the rule. Hence, if the rules omit all reference to the general laws that make provision for the matters specified in Schedule 11., and if there is no other provision for these matters iv the rules, the rules eaunot be said to contain any direct registrable provision for such matters, and would therefore not be iv compliance with tho Act; for the form of application required by the Regulations is only a method of procedure, and could not be deemed registrable as part of the rules, so as to bo explanatory of them in a Court of law.

* If the society is not a friendly society, or a cattle insurance society, this and the remaining numbered statements should be omitted; or, if it be a specially-authorized society, any of them which are not rendered applicable by the authority for registering the sociely should be omitted. t If tho society does not grant a medical-attendance benefit, the words in brackets should be omitted. % If the society is a cattle insurance society, this and the next statement should be omitted. § If the number of members is limited to bo less than 1,000, or less than 10,000, members, the bracketed words relating to both, or the latter, of such cases should be omitted. || If this is not intended, this statement should be omitted. _" If the society is not one to which section 31 applies, this statement should be omitted. ** If the society docs not grant annuities, these words should be omitted.