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38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, s. 24. 
(1.) Special resolutions. —A special resolution is one which 
is passed hy a majority of not less than three fourths of 
such members of a society for the time being entitled under 
the rules to vote as may be present in person or by proxy 
(where the rules allow proxies) at any general meeting of 
which notice specifying the intention to propose such reso 
lutions has been duly given according to the rules, and 
which resolution is confirmed by a majority of such mem 
bers for the time being entitled under the rules to vote as 
may be present in person or by proxy at a subsequent 
general meeting of which notice has been duly given, held 
not less than fourteen days nor more than one month from 
the day of the meeting at which such resolution was first 
passed. At any meeting mentioned in this section a decla 
ration by the chairman that the resolution has been carried 
shall be deemed conclusive evidence of the fact (a). 
(2.) Change of name.—A society may, by special resolu 
tion, with the approval in writing of the chief registrar, or 
in the case of societies registered and doing business exclu 
sively in Ireland or Scotland the assistant registrar for 
Ireland or Scotland respectively, change its name; but no 
such change shall affect any right or obligation of the 
society, or of any member thereof, and any pending legal 
proceedings may be continued by or against the trustees of 
the society, or any other officer who may sue or be sued on 
behalf of such society, notwithstanding its new name (b). 
(3.) Amalgamation of societies. — Any two or more 
societies may, by special resolution of both or all such 
societies, become amalgamated together as one society, with 
or without any dissolution or division of the funds of such 
societies or either of them; and any society may, by special 
(a) The machinery of special resolutions is new to friendly 
societies, being adopted from sect. 51 of the Companies Act, 
1862. See Treasury regulations 33 to 40 and Forms AA 
to AG. 
(i) Change of name, witli the approval of the registrar, was 
permitted by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 101, s. 4. The permitting a 
change of name is wholly in the discretion of the chief registrar, 
and it is perhaps the only act of registry depending on approval.