Friendly Societies Act, 1896

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Registry of societies carrying on business in more than one part of the United Kingdom.

14.—(1) A society carrying or intending to carry on business in more than one part of the United Kingdom shall be registered in the part in which its registered office is situate; but the rules and registered amendments of rules of any such society shall be recorded by the registrars of the other parts, and for that purpose copies of the rules and amendments shall be sent to those registrars.

(2) Until the rules are so recorded the society shall not be entitled to any of the privileges of this Act in the part of the United Kingdom in which the rules have not been recorded, and until the amendments of rules are recorded they shall not take effect in that part.