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1896. to another without such written consent as is by this Act required;

(c) a collecting society or industrial assurance company to which a member or person is sought to be transferred fails to give such notice as is by this Act required.

(2.) The provisions of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, with respect to offences under that Act and the procedure relating thereto, shall apply in the case of offences under this Act, and as so applied shall extend to unregistered collecting societies and industrial assurance companies as if they were registered societies.

15. If any person wilfully makes, orders, or allows to be made any entry, erasure in, or omission from a contribution or collecting book, with intent to falsify that book, or to evade any of the provisions of this Act, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds recoverable at the suit of the chief or any assistant registrar, or of any person aggrieved.

16. Where any notice is required by this Act to be served upon any member or other person, the notice shall be in writing, and either delivered or sent by post to him, or, in the case of a notice of default, left at his last known place of abode.

17.—(1.) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

The expression "collector" shall include every paid officer, agent, or person, howsoever remunerated, who, by himself or by any deputy or substitute, collects contributions for a collecting society or industrial assurance company, or holds any interest in a collecting book thereof, but shall not include—

(a) the secretary or other officer of a branch of a society who receives contributions on behalf of the society or of any other branch thereof; or

(b) any officer appointed to superintend and receive moneys from collectors within a specified area, not being himself a collector; or

(c) any agent appointed and remunerated by members, and not under the control of the society or company, or of any officer thereof.

Other expressions have the same meaning as in the Friendly Societies Act, 1896.

(2.) The power of the Treasury to make regulations for carrying the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, into effect shall extend to the making of regulations for carrying this Act into effect.

(3.) The application of this Act to Scotland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands shall I e subject to the same modifications as are expressed in the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, with respect to the application of that Act.

18. The Acts mentioned in the schedule to this Act ate hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule.