INTRODUCTION. ' 
IS 
as a Secretary of State should authorize as those 
to which the powers and facilities of the Act 
ought to be extended. The limits of assurance 
and annuity contained in the Act of 1850 were 
re-enacted. The distinction between "certified” 
and " registered ” societies was not maintained 
(having been found not to be workable) ; but it 
was provided that annuity societies should still 
require the certificate of an actuary before re 
gistry, and that societies not certified by the 
Registrar might, by merely depositing a copy of 
their rules with him, protect their funds from 
fraud or misapplication, and provide for the 
settlement of disputes. It was also provided that 
any Provident, Benevolent, or Charitable Institu 
tion formed for the purpose of relieving the 
physical wants and necessities of persons in poor 
circumstances, or for improving the dwellings of 
the labouring classes, or for granting pensions 
or for providing habitations for the members or 
other persons elected by them, might, by trans 
mitting its rules to the Registrar, and obtaining 
his certificate as to their "being not repugnant to 
law,” become entitled to the benefit of so much 
of the Act as related to the appointment of, and 
the vesting of the property of the society in, trus 
tees, their suing and being sued and their liability, 
the giving of security by the treasurer, and the 
rendering of accounts by him, the settlement of 
disputes, &c., in the same manner as if it were a 
Registered Friendly Society. 
19. Upon the submission of the rules of a 
Friendly Society to the Registrar, he was to