SCHEDULES.

Section 9(3).

FIRST SCHEDULE[[38 & 39 Vict. c. 60, Sch. II.; 50 & 51 Vict. c. 56, ss. 14 and 15; and 58 & 59 Vict.. c. 26 s. 18.]] Matters to be provided for by the Rules of Societies registered under this act

1The name and place of office of the society.

2The whole of the objects for which the society is to be established, the purposes for which the funds thereof shall be applicable, the terms of admission of members, the conditions under which any member may become entitled to any benefit assured thereby, and the fines and forfeitures to be imposed on any member, and the consequences of nonpayment of any subscription or fine.

3The mode of holding meetings and right of voting, and the manner of making, altering, or rescinding rules.

4The appointment and removal of a committee of management (by-whatever name), of a treasurer and other officers, and of trustees, and in the case of a society with branches, the composition and powers of the central body, and the conditions under which a branch may secede from the society.

5The investment of the funds, the keeping of the accounts, and the audit of the same once a year at least.

6Annual returns to the registrar of the receipts, funds, effects, and expenditure and numbers of members, of the society.

7The inspection of the books of the society by every person having an interest in the funds of the society.

8The manner in which disputes shall be settled.

9In case of dividing societies, a provision for meeting all claims upon the society existing at the time of division before any such division takes place. And also in the case of friendly and cattle insurance societies :—

10The 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, and of all contributions on account thereof.

11(Except as to cattle insurance societies) a valuation once at least in every five years of the assets and liabilities of the society, including the estimated risks and contributions.

12The voluntary dissolution of the society by consent in a friendly society of not lass than five sixths in value of the 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 ; and in a cattle insurance society by consent of three fourths in number of the members.

13The right of one fifth of the total number of members, or of one hundred members in the case of a society of one thousand members and not exceeding ten thousand, or of five hundred members in the case of a society of more than ten thousand members, to apply to the chief registrar, or in case of societies registered and doing business exclusively in Scotland or Ireland to the assistant registrar for Scotland or Ireland, for an investigation of the affairs of the society, or for winding up the same.