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MODEL BRANCH RULES. 
MODEL BRANCH RULES. 
The following Form of Rules lias Been prepared by the 
chief registrar for the purpose of assisting branches of 
Friendly Societies in complying with the provisions of the 
Act 38 & 39 Viet. c. 60. For tire word “ Branch ” may be 
substituted the words “ District,” “ Lodge,” “ Court,”" 
“ Division,” &e., as the case may be. 
I.—Name, Place, and Constitution of Branch. 
The branch shall be called “ The of the [District 
of the] (a) Society [herein called the Order] ; and 
all the rules of the Order [and of the district], and all 
amendments thereof duly registered, shall be as binding on 
the branch as if the same were herein inserted. 
It is composed of persons over sixteen years of age (b). 
It is established in England, at No. , 
Street, , in the county of 
In the event of any change in the place of the branch,. 
notice of such change shall be sent within seven days there 
after to the secretary of the Order. 
II.—Objects cmd Pmyoses, Admission of Members, Conditions - 
of Benefit, fyc. 
(1.) Objects for which the branch is established.—(c) This 
branch is established to provide, by voluntary subscriptions 
of the members, with [or without] the aid of donations, for 
the following objects, being those or some of those of the 
(a) If the branch is not to be in district, words relating to a 
district are to be omitted. 
(£) No person under the age of 16 years may be a member of 
a branch unless it is one consisting wholly of members under 16. 
(e) So much of this rule as is not intended to be adopted by the 
branch should be omitted, and if the society lias, and the branch 
is to have any other of the objects authorised by the Act, they 
should he stated, following closely the words of section 8 of the 
Act, as in this model.