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38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, s. 11. 
tary and of every trustee or other officer authorized to sue 
and he sued on behalf of the society, shall be sent to the 
registrar (d). 
(3.) Identity, or deceptive similarity of name not to he 
allowed.—No society shall be registered under a name 
identical with that under which any other existing society 
is registered, or so nearly resembling such name as to be 
likely, or in any name likely, in the opinion of the regis 
trar, to deceive the members or the public as to its identity, 
and no society shall change its name without the sanction 
of the chief or an assistant registrar as after provided (e). 
(4.) Dividing societies may he registered.—A society (other 
than a benevolent society or working men’s club) shall 
not be disentitled to registry by reason of any rule for or 
practice of dividing any part of the funds thereof if the 
rules thereof contain distinct provision for meeting all 
claims upon the society existing at the time of division 
before any such division takes place (/). 
(5.) Societies granting annuities to have tables certified by 
actuary.—No society assuring to any member a certain 
annuity shall be entitled to registry, unless the tables of 
contributions for such assurance, certified by the actuary to 
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, 
or by some actuary approved by the Treasury, who has 
(d) The provision as to the list of the officers is new, hut a 
similar provision is contained in the Trade Unions Act, 1871 
(34 & 35 Vict. c. 31, s. 13). The option given of appointing 
officers to sue and he sued is stated hy the chief registrar to be- 
founded on the reluctance the trustees of a large society often 
feel to seeing their names mixed up with legal proceedings 
(Report, 1875, p. 7). As to the application for registry, sea 
treasury regulation 1 and Form A. 
(e) This provision is new as regards friendly societies, but is 
contained in the Acts relating to industrial and provident so 
cieties, trade unions, and building societies. The provision is, 
important, as enabling the registrar to restrain a society froim 
using a. name which, though not that of an existing society 
might give an untrue impression to the public as to the constitu 
tion or the society, as where a burial society seeks to call itself- 
an “assurance society,” etc. L 
(/) This provision is new.