39 & 40 Yict. Cap. 45, ss. 25, 26. 
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or any inspector or public auditor under this Act, shall, in 
the absence of any evidence to the contrary he received in 
evidence without proof of the signature (5). 
25. Duties of the registrars.—Sub-sections six, seven, eight,, 
and nine of the Friendly Societies Act, section ten, relating 
to the duties of the chief registrar and assistant registrars, 
shall, so far as the same are applicable to industrial and 
provident societies, he deemed to he incorporated with this 
Act (c). 
26. Application of Act to Channel Islands.—With re 
spect to the Channel Islands this Act shall he varied as 
follows : 
1. As respects the island of Jersey, the following pro 
visions shall have effect: 
(a.) The term “ county court ” shall mean the court for 
the recovery of petty debts, in all cases in which 
the claim or demand shall not exceed the sum of 
ten pounds sterling, and in all other cases the 
inferior number of the royal court of the said 
island, composed of the bailiff and two jurats of 
the said court : 
(b.) The term “court of summary jurisdiction” shall 
have in civil cases the same meaning as the term 
county court: 
( c 0 All misdemeanors under this Act shall he prosecuted, 
tried, and punished in the form and manner 
prescribed by the law and custom of the said 
island with respect to crimes and offences (crimes 
et delits~) : 
(d.) All other offences and all penalties under this Act 
shall be prosecuted and recovered summarily be 
fore the magistrate of the court for the repression 
of minor offences, in all cases of his competency, 
at the suit or instance of the bailiff of the parish 
in which the offence or other unlawful act shall 
(b) See note (b), p. 181, ante. 
(c) See pp. 56—58, ante.