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claiming through a member or person insured, or under the 
rules, such member or person may, notwithstanding any 
provisions of the rules of such society [or branch] to the- 
contrary, apply to the county court, or to the court of sum 
mary jurisdiction for the place where such member or other 
person resides, and such court may settle such dispute in 
manner herein provided. 
(11.) Service by post.—In proving service of any notice by 
this section authorized to be sent by post, it is sufficient to 
prove that such notice was properly directed, and was put, 
as a prepaid letter, into the post-office in such time as 
to admit of its being delivered in due course of delivery 
within the period (if any) prescribed for sending the same. 
(12.) Offences under this section.—It shall be an offence 
under this Act— 
(a.) If any collector of a society [or branch] to which this 
section applies becomes a member of the com 
mittee, or holds any other office in the same (except 
as aforesaid), or if any member of the committee 
of management becomes a collector, or if any col 
lector votes at or takes part in the proceedings of 
a general meeting : 
(!>.) If any person attempts to transfer a member or per 
son assured from one society [or branch] to another 
without such written consent as herein mentioned .- 
(c.) If a society [or branch] to which a member or per 
son is sought to be transferred fails to give such 
notice as hereinbefore required. 
(13.) Provisions of present section to be containedin rules.— 
All the provisions of the present section apply to societies 
existing at the commencement of this Act, and shall be 
contained in the rules of all future societies [and branches] 
to which this section applies (a); and any act or omission 
(a) As any provision in the rules of a society under this 
section contrary to its enactments is void (see sect. 6), the 
societies should revise their rules, with the view of rescinding 
any such provisions.