Friendly Societies Act, 1908

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Disputes.

6. In section sixty-eight of the principal Act (which relates to the decision of disputes) the words “for not more than six months” shall be repealed in paragraph (b) of subsection (1), and at the end of the section the following new subsection shall be added:—

“(8) In this section the expression ‘dispute’ includes any dispute arising on the question whether a member or person aggrieved is entitled to be or to continue to be a member or to be reinstated as a member, but, save as aforesaid, in the case of a person who has ceased to be a member, does not include any dispute other than a dispute on a question between him and the society or branch or an officer thereof which arose whilst he was a member, or arises out of his previous relation as a member to that society or branch.”