is registered on or after the operative date and before 1st April 1999, and

is not in the course of dissolution or winding up on the operative date, shall on 1st May 1998, or in the case of a society first registered after the operative date, on applying for registration, pay to the Chief Registrar a fee of £185 in respect of the Central Office’s function under section 106 of the Act of maintaining the society’s public file during the accounting year 1998-99.