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38  &  39  Vict.  Cap.  60,  s.  11.

tary  and  of  every  trustee  or  other  officer  authorized  to  sue
and  he  sued  on  behalf  of  the  society,  shall  be  sent  to  the
registrar  (d).
(3.)  Identity,  or  deceptive  similarity  of  name  not  to  he
allowed.—No  society  shall  be  registered  under  a  name
identical  with  that  under  which  any  other  existing  society
is  registered,  or  so  nearly  resembling  such  name  as  to  be
likely,  or  in  any  name  likely,  in  the  opinion  of  the  registrar, ­
  to  deceive  the  members  or  the  public  as  to  its  identity,
and  no  society  shall  change  its  name  without  the  sanction
of  the  chief  or  an  assistant  registrar  as  after  provided  (e).
(4.)  Dividing  societies  may  he  registered.—A  society  (other
than  a  benevolent  society  or  working  men’s  club)  shall
not  be  disentitled  to  registry  by  reason  of  any  rule  for  or
practice  of  dividing  any  part  of  the  funds  thereof  if  the
rules  thereof  contain  distinct  provision  for  meeting  all
claims  upon  the  society  existing  at  the  time  of  division
before  any  such  division  takes  place  (/).
(5.)  Societies  granting  annuities  to  have  tables  certified  by
actuary.—No  society  assuring  to  any  member  a  certain
annuity  shall  be  entitled  to  registry,  unless  the  tables  of
contributions  for  such  assurance,  certified  by  the  actuary  to
the  Commissioners  for  the  Reduction  of  the  National  Debt,
or  by  some  actuary  approved  by  the  Treasury,  who  has

(d)  The  provision  as  to  the  list  of  the  officers  is  new,  hut  a
similar  provision  is  contained  in  the  Trade  Unions  Act,  1871
(34  &  35  Vict.  c.  31,  s.  13).  The  option  given  of  appointing
officers  to  sue  and  he  sued  is  stated  hy  the  chief  registrar  to  befounded
  on  the  reluctance  the  trustees  of  a  large  society  often
feel  to  seeing  their  names  mixed  up  with  legal  proceedings
(Report,  1875,  p.  7).  As  to  the  application  for  registry,  sea
treasury  regulation  1  and  Form  A.
(e)  This  provision  is  new  as  regards  friendly  societies,  but  is
contained  in  the  Acts  relating  to  industrial  and  provident  societies, ­
  trade  unions,  and  building  societies.  The  provision  is,
important,  as  enabling  the  registrar  to  restrain  a  society  froim
using  a.  name  which,  though  not  that  of  an  existing  society
might  give  an  untrue  impression  to  the  public  as  to  the  constitution ­
  or  the  society,  as  where  a  burial  society  seeks  to  call  itselfan
  “assurance  society,”  etc.  L
(/)  This  provision  is  new.