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302 (3.) Every annual or other return, abstract of valuation, and other document required for the purposes of this Act, shall be made in such form and shall contain such particulars as the chief registrar prescribes.

(4.) A receipt under this Act endorsed upon or annexed to mortgage or other assurance shall be in the form set forth in Part III of the same schedule, or in any form specified in the rules of the society or branch or any schedule thereto, and a bond to be given by an officer in receipt or charge of money shall be in one of the forms set forth in the said part.

(5.) Applications for certificates of births and deaths under this Act shall be in such form and under such regulations as may be approved of by the registrar-general of births, deaths, and marriage for England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively.

99.—(1.) The Treasury may make regulations respecting registry and procedure under this Act, and the seal to be used for registry, and the duties and functions of the registrar, and the inspection of documents kept by the registrar under this Act, and generally for carrying this Act into effect.

(2.) All such regulations shall forthwith be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

100. Every document bearing the seal or stamp of the central office shall be received in evidence without further proof; and every document purporting to be signed by the chief or any assistant registrar, or any inspector, or public auditor or valuer under this Act, shall, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary be received in evidence without proof of the signature.

101.—(1.) This Act shall apply to societies and branches subsisting at the commencement of this Act which or the rules of which have been registered, enrolled, or certified, under any Act relating to friendly societies or cattle insurance societies, as if they had been registered under this Act, and the rules of those societies and branches shall, so far as they are not contrary to any express provision of this Act, continue in force until altered or rescinded.

(2.) Where the contingent annual payments to which the members or the nominees of the members of friendly societies or branches, established before the fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty, may become entitled exceed the limit fixed by this Act, the rules of those societies and branches shall continue to be valid, anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

102. In the application of this Act to Scotland—

The expression "land" shall include heritable subjects of whatever description;

The expressions "court of summary jurisdiction" and "county court" shall mean the sheriff court of the county;

The expression "administration" shall mean confirmation;

The expression "misdemeanor" shall mean crime and offence.