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38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, s. 26. 
(d.) Every award under this or the last preceding section,, 
whether for dissolution or distribution of funds, 
is final and conclusive on the society in respect of 
which the same is made, and on all members of 
the same, and other persons having any claim on 
the funds of the society, without appeal, and shall 
be enforced in the same manner as a decision on 
a dispute under this Act; and the expenses of 
every investigation and award, and of publishing 
every notice of dissolution, shall be paid out of 
the funds of the society before any other appro 
priation thereof shall be made (a): 
(e.) Notice of every award for dissolution shall, within 
twenty-one days after the same shall have been 
made, be advertised by the central office in the 
Gazette, and in some newspaper circulating in the 
county in which the registered office of the society 
is situated, and unless, within three months from 
the date of the Gazette in which such advertise 
ment appears, a member or other person interested 
in or having any claim on the funds of the society 
commences proceedings to set aside the dissolution 
of the society, consequent upon such award, and 
such dissolution is set aside accordingly, the society 
shall be legally dissolved from the date of such 
advertisement, and the requisite consents to the 
application to the registrar shall be considered to 
have been duly obtained without proof of the 
signatures thereto (6). 
(9.) Consent of central body.—The provisions of the pre 
sent section shall not apply to any society having branches 
without the consent of the central body of such society (c). 
26. Militiamen and volunteers not to lose benefits.—No 
person, by reason of his enrolment or service in the militia 
(a) See 23 & 24 Vict. c. 68, s. 2. 
(J) Sec 23 & 24 Vict. c. 58, s. 3. 
(e) Tills provision is new.