22U.K.After section 63 there shall be inserted the following section—
(1)Every registered friendly society shall maintain a register of the names and addresses of the members of the society.
(2)The register shall be kept at the registered office of the society or at such other place or places as the committee of management thinks fit.
(3)A society need not enter in the register the address of a member who became a member before the commencement of this section while it has no address for him and his whereabouts are unknown.
(4)Where it appears to a society that the address shown in the register for a member is no longer current, the society—
(a)may remove that address from the register; and
(b)need not enter in the register an address for that member while it has no address for him and his whereabouts are unknown.
(5)If a society contravenes subsection (1) above, it shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.”