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INTRODUCTION. 
Friendly Society may, for the purposes of the 
Income Tax Acts, deduct the annual premium 
payable for a life assurance or deferred annuity, 
if the premiums are made for three months at 
least, from the amount in respect of which he 
is liable to be assessed. 
69. By the Married Women’s Property Act, 
1870, any married woman or woman about to he 
married may apply in writing to the trustees of a 
registered Friendly Society that any benefit in the 
funds of the society, to the holding of which no 
liability is attached, and to which she is entitled, 
may be entered in the books of the society in her 
name or intended name as a married woman 
entitled to her separate use, and it shall be the 
duty of the trustees to cause the same to be so 
entered, and thereupon such benefit shall be 
deemed to be her property, and shall be payable 
as if she were an unmarried woman; provided 
that if it had been obtained by her by means of 
moneys of her husband without his consent, the 
court may order it to be paid to the husband. 
70. It will be perceived from the foregoing 
statement of the provisions of the Friendly 
Societies Act of 1875, that it “proceeds on the 
basis of previously existing legislation,” and that 
its amendments of the Act of 1855, are in the 
directions of more efficient machinery, and greater 
facility of registration, &c. In many respects, 
well-arranged, coherent, and intelligible provisions 
have been substituted for the often ill-drawn, 
obscure, and ineffectual clauses of the Act of 
1855.