38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, S. 4. 
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“ Industrial Assurance Company” means any company, as 
defined lay “ The Life Assurance Companies Act, 1870,” 
'which grants assurances on any one life for a less sum 
than twenty pounds, and which receives premiums or 
contributions in Great Britain or Ireland, by means 
of collectors, at less periodical intervals than two 
months : 
« Amendment of rule” includes a new rule, and a resolu 
tion rescinding a rule : 
“ Rules ” means rules for the time being : 
“ Branch” means any number of the members of a society, 
under the control of a central body, having a separate 
fund administered by themselves or by a committee or 
officers appointed by themselves : 
“ Persons claiming through a member ” includes the 
heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns of a 
member, and also his nominees where nomination is 
allowed : 
“ Collector ” includes every paid officer, agent, or person, 
howsoever remunerated, who, by himself or by any 
deputy or substitute, collects contributions for a 
society, or holds any interest in a collecting book of 
the same, but does not include— 
(a.) The secretary or other officer of a branch of a society 
who receives contributions on behalf of such 
society, or of any other branch of the same ; 
(&.) Any officer appointed to superintend and receive 
moneys from collectors within a specified area, and 
not being himself a collector as hereinbefore 
defined; 
(c.) Any agent appointed and remunerated by members,, 
and not under the control of the society, or of any 
officer thereof : 
“ Officer ” extends to anyftrustee, treasurer, secretary, or 
member of the committee of management of a society,, 
or person appointed by the society to sue and be sued; 
on its behalf : 
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