Friendly Societies Amendment Act 1904 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUARTO

ED WA R DI SEPTUM REGIS,

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No. 34 of 1904.

AN ACT to amend the Friendly Societies Act,

1894.

[Assented to 21st _November, 1904.]

DE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and

with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia-

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.     This Act may be cited as the Friendly Societies Amendment Short title.

Act, 1904, and shall be construed as one with the Friendly Societies

Act, 1894, hereinafter called the principal Act.

2. Section seven of the principal Act is amended Amendment of 58 Viet., No. 23,

(1.)	By inserting in subsection three, after the word 64 For,"	section 7.
the words "insuring money to be paid on the death of such persons or for" ; and

(2.) By inserting in the proviso, after the word "week," the words "or for the payment of a sum at death, or for defraying the expenses of burial from any one fund exceeding, in the case of a member, one hundred pounds, or, in the case of any other person, fifty pounds."

1904, No. 34.] Friendly Societies—Amendment. [4 EDW. VII.

Amendment of

section S. 3. Section eight of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the

following shall be inserted in place thereof:

Power to specially	8. Societies may be registered under this Act for any pur- the provisions of this Act, or such of them as are specified in the authority, ought to be extended, with or without any of the purposes enumerated in section seven.
authorise societies.
Cf. 50 & 60 Viet,	pose which the Minister may authorise as a purpose to which
C. 25, s. S (5).
section 12.

Amendment of 4. Section twelve of the principal Act is aniended as follows:

By inserting in paragraph (a) of subsection one, after the words " registered address," the words " or registered office."

Cf. 59 & 60 Vict., By adding to paragraph (b) the words " The same person shall

c. 23, s. 25 (4).

not be secretary or treasurer of a registered society or

branch and a trustee of that society or branch."

By striking out the words " who dies at sea," in subsection two, and substituting the following words:—" whose body is not or cannot be recovered, or who dies or is drowned at sea ; but in such case the trustees shall not be liable to pay any claim until, in the opinion of a majority of such trustees, satisfactory proof of death is produced."

Amendment of	5.	Section fourteen of the principal Act is amended by adding,
55 Vict., No. 23,

section 14.	at the end of subsection three, the words "The marriage of a mem-
Cf. 59 & 60 Viet.,	ber of a society or branch shall operate as a revocation of any
e. 25, s. 56 (5).	nomination theretofore made by that member under this section."

By Authority : Wm. ALFRED WATSON, Government Printer, Perth.