38 & 39 Viot. Cap. 60, s. 31.
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wliich by virtue of this and any other section of this Act
would be an offence on the part of a registered society
shall be an offence on the part of any other society to
which this Act applies, and of any officer of such society
bound to fulfil the duty (if any) whereof such offence is a
breach.
The word “ society ” in the present section shall, except
in provisions one, eight, and nine, include all industrial
assurance companies, but nothing in the present section
contained shall apply to any assurance with any such company,
the premiums in respect of which are receivable at
greater periodical intervals than two months (b).
31. As to cattle insurance and certain other societies.—
The provisions of the present section apply only to registered
cattle insurance societies, and to such specially authorized
societies as the Treasury may allow to take the benefit
of the present section [and to branches of such societies] :
(1.) Rules to have effect of covenant by members.—The
rules bind the society [or branch] and the members thereof,
and all persons claiming through them respectively, to the
same extent as if each member had subscribed his name
and affixed his seal thereto, and there were in such rules
contained a covenant on the part of himself, his heirs, executors,
and administrators, to conform to such rules, subject,
to the provisions of this Act.
(2.) Money payable by members to be recoverable as debt.—
All moneys payable by a member to the society [or branch]
are deemed to be a debt due from such member to the
society [or branch], and are recoverable as such in the.
county court of the district in which such memberresides
(c).
(b) The whole of this section is new. The considerations upon
which it is based will be found in the fourth Report^ of the
-friendly Societies Commissioners, 1874, pp. xci.-cxxxiii. See
Treasury regulation 57.
(e) This section is founded on 29 Viet. c. 34. The extension
to certain specially authorized societies, is new.
