MODEL  BRANCH  RULES

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Older,  viz.  :—(a)  tlie  relief  or  maintenance  of  tlie  members,
tlieir  husbands,  wives,  children,  fathers,  mothers,  brothers,
or  sisters,  nephews  or  nieces,  and  wards  being  orphans,
during  sickness  or  other  infirmity,  whether  bodily  or
mental;  in  old  age,  being  any  age  after  [fifty  (r?)]  years,
and  in  widowhood  ;  (b)  the  relief  or  maintenance  of  the
orphan  children  of  members  during  their  minority  ;  (c)  insuring ­
  money  to  be  paid  on  the  death  of  a  member,  [or  for
the  funeral  expenses  of  the  husband,  wife,  or  child  of  a
member  or  the  widow  of  a  deceased  member]  ;  (d)  the  relief
or  maintenance  of  the  members  when  on  travel  in  search  of
employment  or  when  in  distressed  circumstances.
(2.)  Purposes  for  which  the  funds  shall  be  applicable.—All
moneys  received  on  account  of  contributions,  donations,
admissions,  fines,  or  otherwise,  shall  be  applied  towards
carrying  out  the  above-mentioned  objects,  according  to  tlie
rules;  any  officer  misapplying  the  funds  shall  repay  the
same  and  be  excluded,  without  prejudice  to  his  liability  to
prosecution  for  such  misapplication.
(3.)  Terms  of  admission  of  members.—(e)

(4.)  Conditions  under  which  members  may  become  en  titled
to  benefits.—(/)

No  money  shall  be  paid  upon  the  death  of  a  member  or
other  person  whose  death  is  or  ought  to  be  entered  in  any
register  of  deaths,  not  being  a  death  at  sea,  except  upon  the
production  of  a  certificate  of  such  death  under  the  hand  of
the  registrar  of  deaths,  or  other  person  having  the  care  of
the  register  of  deaths  in  which  such  death  is  or  ought  to  be
entered,  Friendly  Societies  Act,  1875,  s.  14  (2)  ;  [nor  upon
the  death  of  a  child  under  ten  years  of  age,  except  upon  the
production  of  such  certificate  of  death  as  is  required  by
section  28  of  the  Friendly  Societies  Act,  1875,  and  otherwise ­
  in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  the  said  Act.]

(d)  Any  other  age  after  50  may  be  stated.
(e)  Here  should  be  stated  in  what  manner  a  candidate  for
Membership  is  to  be  proposed  and  elected;  what  entrance  fee,  if
any,  be  is  to  pay;  what  classes  of  persons,  if  any,  are  not  to  be
eligible  for  membership,  &c.
{f)  Here  should  be  stated,  with  respect  to  each  benefit,  what
are  the  contributions  payable  to  assure  it,  for  how  long  they  must
be  paid  before  a  member  is  to  be  entitled  to  the  benefit,  and  in
what  manner  a  member  is  to  make  and  prove  his  claim,  &c.