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Conditions of registration.
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5. With respect to the registry of new societies, the following provisions shall have effect:—
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(1) No society can be registered under this Act which does not consist of seven persons at least:
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(2) For the purpose of registry an application to register the society, signed by seven members and the secretary, and two printed copies of the rules, shall be sent to the registrar:
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(3) No society shall be registered under a name identical with that under which any other existing society is registered, or so nearly resembling such name as to be likely, or in any name likely, in the opinion of the registrar, to mislead the members or the public as to its identity, and no society shall change its name except in the manner herein-after provided.
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(4) A society registered under the [1]
Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1852, and not registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts, 1862, 1867, or 1876, may obtain from the registrar an acknowledgment of registry under this Act:
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(5) The word “limited” shall be the last word in the name of every society registered under this Act:
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(6) A society carrying or intending to carry on business in more than one part of the United Kingdom shall be registered in the part in which its registered office, as herein mentioned, is situate; but copies of the rules of the society and of all amendments of the same shall, when registered, be sent to the registrar of each of the other parts to be recorded by him, and until such rules are so recorded the society shall not be entitled to any of the privileges of this Act in the part in which such rules have not been recorded, and until such amendments are so recorded the same shall not take effect in such part.
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[1 The 1852 Act was repealed by that of 1862, and the 1862, and 1867 Acts with certain savings by that of 1876, which last Act is repealed by the present Act.] |
