An Act to consolidate the Law relating to Friendly and other Societies.
[7th August 1896]
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C1This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland
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I1Act in force at 1.1.1897 by s. 108 (now repealed)
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(2)[F3Section 52 of the M1Friendly Societies Act 1974] shall in respect of contributing to the funds and taking part in the government of a medical society, that is to say, a society for the purpose of relief in sickness by providing medical attendance and medicine, extend to any registered trade union or branch of a registered trade union.
(3)A registered . . . F4 trade union or branch shall not withdraw from contributing to the funds of any such medical society except on three months notice to the society and on payment of all contributions accrued or accruing due to the date of the expiration of the notice.
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F2Ss. 1-21, 22(1), 23-25, 27-42, 44-51, 53-58, 60, 61, 63, 68-106, 108, Schs 1, 2 repealed by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
F3Words substituted by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 9 para. 1
F4Words repealed by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
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A society or branch, whether registered or unregistered, shall not insure or pay on the death of a child under the ages hereinafter specified any sum of money which exceeds or which, when added to any amount payable on the death of that child by any other society or branch or by any trade union or industrial assurance company exceeds, the amounts hereinafter specified; that is to say:—
(a)In the case of a child under three years of age, six pounds;
(b)In the case of a child under six years of age, ten pounds;
(c)In the case of a child under ten years of age, fifteen pounds.]
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F14S. 62 substituted by Friendly Societies Act 1924 (c. 11), s. 2(1)
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C2Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
C3S. 62 superseded by Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 (c. 39), s. 6(1): ibid., s. 6(2)
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(1)Where application is made for a certificate of the death of a child for the purpose of obtaining a sum of money from a society or branch, the name of the society or branch, and the sum sought to be obtained therefrom shall be stated to the registrar of deaths.
(2)The registrar of deaths shall write on or at the foot of the certificate the words “to be produced to the society or branch (naming the same) said to be liable for payment of the sum ofl. (stating the same).”
(3)All certificates of the same death shall be numbered in consecutive order.
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C4Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
C5S. 64 repealed with saving by Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 (c. 39), s. 6(2); excluded by Friendly Societies Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 19), s. 3(2)
C6Ss. 63-66 applied (E.W.S.) (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52), ss. 19(1)(b), 302
(1)A registrar of deaths shall not give any one or more certificates of death for the payment in the whole of any sum of money exceeding six pounds on the death of a child under [F16three years] or for the payment in the whole of a sum exceeding ten pounds on the death of a child under [F16six years][F17or for the payment in the whole of a sum exceeding fifteen pounds on the death of a child under ten years.]
(2)A registrar of deaths shall not grant any such certificate unless the cause of death has been previously entered in the register of deaths on the certificate of a coroner or of a registered medical practitioner who attended the deceased child during its last illness, or except upon the production of a certificate of the probable cause of death under the hand of a registered medical practitioner, or of other satisfactory evidence thereof.
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F16Words substituted by Friendly Societies Act 1924 (c. 11), s. 2(2)
F17Words inserted by Friendly Societies Act 1924 (c. 11), s. 2(2)
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C7Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
C8S. 65 repealed with saving by Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 (c. 39), s. 6(2); excluded by Friendly Societies Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 19), s. 3(2)
C9Ss. 63-66 applied (E.W.S.) (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52), ss. 19(1)(b), 302
A society or branch, whether registered or unregistered, to which is produced a certificate of the death of a child which does not purport to be the first shall, before paying any money thereon, inquire whether any and what sums of money have been paid on the same death by any other society or branch.
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C10Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
C11S. 66 repealed with saving by Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1948 (c. 39), s. 6(2); excluded by Friendly Societies Act 1955 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 19), s. 3(2)
C12Ss. 63-66 applied (E.W.S.) (16.10.1992) by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c. 52), ss. 19(1)(b), 302
Nothing in this Act respecting payments on the death of children shall apply to insurances on the lives of children of any age, where the person insuring has an interest in the life of the person insured.
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C13Ss. 62 and 64-67 extended to industrial assurance companies by Industrial Assurance Act 1923 (c. 8), s. 4(1); repealed except as they apply to industrial assurance companies by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
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F19S. 107, Sch. 3 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)
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This Act may be cited as the Friendly Societies Act 1896.]
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F21S. 109 repealed by Friendly Societies Act 1974 (c. 46), Sch. 11
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F23S. 107, Sch. 3 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)