(5.) Returns to be m prescribed form. —Every . annual, 
quinquennial, or other return, abstract of valuation, and 
other document required for the purposes of this Act shall 
he made in such form and shall contain such particulars as 
the chief registrar prescribes (c). 
(6.) Recording of documents.—All documents by this 
section required to be sent to the registrar shall be deposited 
with the rules of the societies to which the same respec 
tively relate, and shall be registered or recorded by the 
registrar, with such observations thereon, if any, as the 
chief registrar shall direct (c). 
In what cases quinquennial returns, cfcc., may be dis 
pensed with.—Provided that the chief registrar, with the 
approval of the Treasury, may dispense with the quin 
quennial return and with the valuation herein required in 
respect of societies to whose purposes or to the nature of 
whose operations he may deem the same inapplicable ; and 
may also dispense with the quinquennial return in cases 
where, at the request of a society, he may, by inspection of 
the books thereof through any person whom he appoints, 
obtain such information as he deems sufficient of the sick 
ness and mortality experienced by the society ; and the 
provisions herein contained in respect of the quinquennial 
return and valuation shall not apply to benevolent societies, 
working men’s clubs, or cattle insurance societies, nor to 
specially authorized societies, unless it be so directed in 
the authority for registering the same (d). 
15. Privileges of societies.—Registered societies shall be 
entitled to the following privileges [which are extended to 
branches by the Act of 1876 where so stated] :— 
(1.) Corresponding Societies Acts, &c., not to affect registered 
societies [or branches'].—No society [or branch] or meeting 
of a society [or branch] shall be affected by any of the pro- 
(e) These provisions are new. For the form of abstract of 
valuation, see Appendix. 
(d) These provisions are new.