Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965

76 Northern Ireland societies

(1) Where, in the case of any society for the time being registered under the law for the time being in force in Northern Ireland for purposes corresponding to those of this Act, copies of that society's rules so registered have been sent to the central office or to the assistant registrar for Scotland to be recorded by that office or registrar and have been so recorded, then, for the purposes of the operation of this Act in the area for which that office or registrar is the appropriate registrar, references to a registered society in such, but such only, of the provisions of this Act as are specified in subsection (2) of this section shall, subject to subsection (3) of this section include a reference to that society, and for the purposes of those provisions that society, those rules and any amendment of those rules registered and recorded as aforesaid shall in that area be deemed to be a society, rules or an amendment duly registered under this Act by the appropriate registrar for that area.

(2) The provisions of this Act referred to in the foregoing subsection are sections 2(2), 3, 5(4), (6) and (7), 6(1)(a), 7(1)(b), (2), (3) and (6), 10(1)(a), 13(3), 14, 15, 16(1)(a)(i), 19(2), 22, 26 to 30, 31(6), 32 to 36, 41, 42, 44(5), 45(1), 50, 51, 52(5), 54, 60 to 62, 64 to 66 and 72.

(3) Nothing in this section shall confer any power or impose any obligation or liability with respect to the taking or refraining from taking of, or a failure to take, any action outside Great Britain and the Channel Islands; and in the application of section 45(1) of this Act by virtue of this section the reference therein to this Act shall be construed as a reference to the law for the time being in force in Northern Ireland for purposes corresponding to those of this Act.

(4) In relation to any society for the time being registered as mentioned in subsection (1) of this section. Article 22 of the [S.R. & O. 1922 No. 184.] Government of Ireland (Companies, Societies, &c.) Order 1922 shall have effect as if the words from " a society registered in Northern Ireland " to " United Kingdom, and " and the words " both in their application to the United Kingdom exclusive of Northern Ireland and " were omitted.