MODEL BRANCH RULES 
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Older, viz. :—(a) tlie relief or maintenance of tlie members, 
tlieir husbands, wives, children, fathers, mothers, brothers, 
or sisters, nephews or nieces, and wards being orphans, 
during sickness or other infirmity, whether bodily or 
mental; in old age, being any age after [fifty (r?)] years, 
and in widowhood ; (b) the relief or maintenance of the 
orphan children of members during their minority ; (c) in 
suring money to be paid on the death of a member, [or for 
the funeral expenses of the husband, wife, or child of a 
member or the widow of a deceased member] ; (d) the relief 
or maintenance of the members when on travel in search of 
employment or when in distressed circumstances. 
(2.) Purposes for which the funds shall be applicable.—All 
moneys received on account of contributions, donations, 
admissions, fines, or otherwise, shall be applied towards 
carrying out the above-mentioned objects, according to tlie 
rules; any officer misapplying the funds shall repay the 
same and be excluded, without prejudice to his liability to 
prosecution for such misapplication. 
(3.) Terms of admission of members.—(e) 
(4.) Conditions under which members may become en titled 
to benefits.—(/) 
No money shall be paid upon the death of a member or 
other person whose death is or ought to be entered in any 
register of deaths, not being a death at sea, except upon the 
production of a certificate of such death under the hand of 
the registrar of deaths, or other person having the care of 
the register of deaths in which such death is or ought to be 
entered, Friendly Societies Act, 1875, s. 14 (2) ; [nor upon 
the death of a child under ten years of age, except upon the 
production of such certificate of death as is required by 
section 28 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, and other 
wise in conformity with the provisions of the said Act.] 
(d) Any other age after 50 may be stated. 
(e) Here should be stated in what manner a candidate for 
Membership is to be proposed and elected; what entrance fee, if 
any, be is to pay; what classes of persons, if any, are not to be 
eligible for membership, &c. 
{f) Here should be stated, with respect to each benefit, what 
are the contributions payable to assure it, for how long they must 
be paid before a member is to be entitled to the benefit, and in 
what manner a member is to make and prove his claim, &c.