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38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, 8. 10. 
ing, and every assistant registrar for Scotland an advocate, 
writer to the signet, or solicitor of not less than seven years’ 
standing. The central office may also, with the approval of 
the Treasury, have attached to it such assistants skilled in 
the business of an actuary and accountant as shall from 
time to time be required for discharging the duties imposed 
on the office by this Act (d). 
(4.) Central office to exercise functions of registrar of friendly 
or building societies for England, and barrister to certify savings 
banks.—The central office shall exercise all the functions 
and powers which are now by law vested in the registrar 
of friendly societies or the registrar of building societies for 
England, or as respects loan societies, building societies, 
and societies instituted for purposes of science, literature, 
or the fine arts, in the barrister appointed to certify the 
rules of savings banks or friendly societies, and shall be 
entitled to receive all statutory fees payable to such 
registrar or banister, and all enactments relating to such 
registrar or barrister, so far as respects such societies as 
aforesaid, shall be construed as applying to the central 
office (e). 
(5.) Other functions of central office ; 'preparation of model 
forms; circulation of information ; construction of tables.— 
The central office shall, with the approval of the Treasury, 
from time to time,— 
(a.) Prepare and cause to be circulated, for the use of 
societies, model forms of accounts, balance-sheets, 
and valuations : 
sioners for the Deduction of the National Debt. See 18 & 19 
Vict. c. 63, s. 6. 
(d) The qualification of registrar was formerly seven years’ 
standing at the bar. The provision as to actuarial assistants is 
new. 
( e ) fhis clause introduced modifications into the practice under 
the following statutes :—As to building societies, fi & 7 Will. 4 
c. 32, 10 Geo. 4, c. 56, 4 & 5 Will. 4, e. 40, 37 & 38 Vict. c. 42 • 
as to loan societies, 3 & 4 Vict. c. 110; as to literary and scientific 
societies, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 32; and those as to industrial 
and provident societies, since repealed. It also affected for 
the period between the 11th August, 1875, and the 1st