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Monts de piété or charitable pawn or deposit offices to be deemed loan societies within and to be subject to provisions of this Act.
Their rules to be certified.
Societies whose rules shall be certified shall be entitled to benefits conferred by 5 & 6 Vict c. 75. on societies complying with provisions of 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 55.
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54. All societies now or hereafter to be formed for the purpose of establishing, supporting, or conducting monts de piété or charitable pawn or deposit offices, at which money may be lent to the industrious poor upon pledge in Ireland, shall be deemed loan societies within the meaning of this Act; and all and every the powers and authorities hereby vested in the said loan fund board for the purpose of superintending and controlling loan societies in Ireland, and for enforcing the due observance of their rules, and the provisions of this Act, shall extend to and shall and may be exercised in respect of all such charitable pawn or deposit offices, and the societies or persons by whom they have been or may be established, and the trustees, conductors, managers, officers, clerks, and servants thereof respectively; and the rules framed for the management of all such institutions shall be certified by the secretary of the loan fund board, within the same period, and under pain of the same disqualifications and penalties, as are herein provided with respect to the loan societies; and all and every other the clauses and enactments herein contained, so far as the said loan fund board, having due regard to the legitimate objects of such charitable pawn or deposit offices, shall deem it expedient to apply them, shall extend and be deemed and construed to extend to such charitable pawn or deposit offices as aforesaid, and to all persons interested therein; and all such societies formed for the purpose of establishing, supporting, or conducting such charitable pawn or deposit offices, the rules whereof shall be duly certified under the provisions of this Act, shall be entitled to all and every the benefits, privileges, exemptions, and advantages which by an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled “An Act to remove doubts touching the law relating to charitable pawn or deposit offices in Ireland,” are conferred upon or declared to belong to such institutions or societies established for the purpose aforesaid as shall have complied with the provisions of the said recited Act of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his late Majesty.
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