258 MODEL RULES FOR A BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. 
MODEL RULES FOR A BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.. 
The following Form of Rules has been prepared by the' 
chief registrar for the purpose of assisting benevolent 
societies in complying with the provisions of the Friendly 
Societies Act, 1875. It is applicable, with slight modifica 
tion, to working men’s clubs and (subject to the special; 
rules provided in each case) to specially authorized Societies.. 
The blanks may be filled as the society may think fit. 
I.—Constitution of Society. 
The society is a benevolent society, composed of persons 
over sixteen years of age (a). 
II.—Name of Society and Place of Registered Office. 
The society shall be called “ The (b) 
Its registered office is in England, and is at No. 
street, , in the county of 
In the event of any change in the situation of the' 
registered office, notice of such change shall be sent within 
fourteen days thereafter to the registrar in the form pre 
scribed by the Treasury regulation in that behalf.—Friendly 
Societies Act, 1875, s. 14 (1 a). 
III.—Objects and Purposes, Admission of Members, Conditions 
of Benefit, Sc. 
1. Objects for ivliich the society is established.—This 
society is established for the benevolent or charitable pur 
pose of (c) 
(a) No person under the ago of 16 years may he a member of 
a society registered after 1st January, 1876, unless it is one con 
sisting wholly of members under 16. 
(4) State the name, which is not to be that of any existing: 
registered society. 
(c) State the whole of the objects.