Friendly Societies Discharge Act, 1854

This Act to apply only to certain societies; which shall cease to be friendly societies.

1. This Act shall relate to and include such of the said societies only as grant and effect policies of assurance payable at death exceeding the sum of one thousand pounds; and from and after the passing of this Act the said societies shall cease to be friendly societies, and shall not be affected by the provisions of any Act passed in the present or any future session of Parliament relating to friendly societies, unless therein expressly named.