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38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, ss. 6, 7. 
the commencement of this Act to the extent set forth in 
the third column of the said schedule ; hut this repeal, or 
anything herein contained, shall not affect the past opera 
tion of the said Acts, or the force or operation, validity or 
invalidity, of anything done or suffered, or any bond or 
security given, right, title, obligation, or liability accrued, 
contract entered into, or proceedings taken, under any of 
the said Acts, or under the rules of any society registered 
or certified thereunder, before the commencement of this 
Act (c). 
6. As to existing societies.—Every society now subsisting 
whose rules have been registered, enrolled, or certified 
under any Act relating to friendly societies or cattle insur 
ance societies, shall be deemed to be a society registered 
under this Act, and its rules shall, so far as the same are 
not contrary to any express provision of this Act, continue in 
force until altered or rescinded (d). 
Provided that nothing herein contained shall affect the 
validity of the rules of friendly societies established before 
the fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred 
and fifty, notwithstanding that the contingent annual pay 
ments to which the members or the nominees of the mem 
bers of such societies may become entitled may exceed the 
limit hereby fixed (e). 
7. Societies with deposited rules.—Section forty-four of 
the Act of the eighteenth and nineteenth Victoria, chapter 
(c) This section is similar to 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, s. 1; 37 & 
38 Vict. c. 42, s. 7. As to the effect of the words “ under any 
of the said Acts,” see Sinden v. Hanks, 3 E. & E. 632. 
(d) This is similar to the provision in the Building Societies 
Act, 1874, s. 8. Under 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, s. 3, the rules of 
subsisting societies are declared valid and in force; under the 
present statute they will only be so “so far as not contrary to 
any express provisions of the Act.” This enactment does not 
of course, affect the Friendly Societies Discharge Act, 1854 
(17 & 18 Vict. c. 56), which declared that societies having power 
to grant assurances exceeding £1,000 should not be deemed to he 
within the Friendly Societies Acts. 
(e) This is in continuation of the enactment of 18 & 19 Vict 
c. 63, s. 46. 
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