Page:Public General Statutes 1896.djvu/295

1896. (b) appeals from refusals to register societies and amendments of rules and the result thereof; and

(c) the registry of amendments of rules; and

(d) evidence of registry and of the appointment of trustees and officers

shall apply to branches and amendments of branch rules.

20.—(1.) A body which has been registered as a branch of a Requisites for society shall not be registered as a society except on production to the registrar of a certificate under the hand of the chief secretary societies or other principal officer of the society of which it was a branch, that the body has wholly seceded or has been expelled from the society.

(2.) An appeal shall lie from the refusal of the chief secretary or other principal officer of the society, or his omission after three months from the receipt of a request in writing made on behalf of the body to grant a certificate, to the High Court in England or Ireland or to the Court of Session in Scotland.

21. A body which, having been a branch of a society, has wholly or been expelled from that society shall not thereafter use the name of that society or any name implying that it is a branch branch thereof, or the number by which it was designated as such branch.

22.—(1.) A registered society or branch may contribute to the Contributions funds and take part by delegates or otherwise in the government of any other registered society or registered branch of a society, as another, provided in the rules of that first-named society or branch, without becoming a branch under this Act of that other society or branch.

(2.) This section shall in respect of contributing to the funds and taking part in the government of a medical society, that is to say, a society for the purpose of relief in sickness by providing medical attendance and medicine, extend to any registered trade union or branch of a registered trade union.

(3.) A registered society or trade union or branch shall not withdraw from contributing to the funds of any such medical society except on three months notice to the society and on payment of all contributions accrued or accruing due to the date of the expiration of the notice.

23. Save as provided by section thirty-one of this Act, the subscription of a person being or having been a member of a registered society or branch shall not be recoverable at law.

24.—(1.) Every registered society and branch shall have a Registered registered office to which all communications and notices addressed, and shall send to the. registrar notice of the situation of that office, and of every change therein.

(2.) In the case of a branch the notice shall be sent to the registarar through an officer appointed in that behalf by the society of which the branch forms part.