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INTRODUCTION. 
of the Treasury, upon proof that the acknow 
ledgment of registry has keen obtained by fraud 
or mistake, or that the society exists for an illegal 
purpose, or has wilfully and after notice from a 
Registrar whom it may concern violated any of 
the provisions of the Act, or has ceased to exist. 
In lieu of cancelling, registry may be suspended 
for any term not exceeding three months, and 
the suspension may, with the approval of the 
Treasury, he renewed from time to time. Notice 
of a proposed cancelling or suspension must be 
given to the society; and every cancelling or 
suspension must be advertized in the Gazette. 
Appeal from cancelling or prolonged suspension 
may be made in England or Ireland to the High 
Court of Justice, or in Scotland to the Court of 
Session. Under the repealed law, there were no 
means of altering or rescinding a certificate once 
granted, either in case of obvious error or double 
registration, or in the case of a society afterwards 
becoming disentitled to registry. The power of 
cancelling or suspending registry where a society 
has, after notice, violated the provisions of the 
Act, has afforded the registry office a valuable 
additional means of enforcing the statutory 
requirements for valuation and those imposed on 
collecting societies by section 30. 
55. The rules of every registered society are to 
provide for its name and place of office, the object 
for which it is established, &e., the mode of hold 
ing meetings and altering rules, appointment and 
removal of officers, investment of funds, keeping 
and audit of accounts, making of annual returns,