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INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 101

Interpretation.

101.(1) In this Act

"Act" means an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or of the Parliament
of the United Kingdom;

"Act of 1893" means the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893;

"amendment", in relation to the rules of a registered society, includes a new
rule, and a resolution rescinding a rule, of the society;

"annual return" means the annual return which a registered society is required
by section 48 to send to the registrar;

"board of directors", in relation to a credit union, means the committee of
management or other directing body of a credit union;

"Building Societies Acts" means the Building Societies Act (Northern Ireland)
1967, any earlier enactment for the like purposes which has been repealed and
any law for the like purposes which is or has been in force in Great Britain;

"committee", in relation to a society, means the committee of management or
other directing body of the society;

"Companies Acts" means the Companies Act (Northern Ireland) 1960, any earlier
enactment for the like purposes which has been repealed, and any law for the
like purposes which is or has been in force in Great Britain;

"credit union" means a society registered as a credit union under this Act;

"exempt society" has the meaning assigned to it by section 38(3);

"group accounts" has the meaning assigned to it by section 45;

"meeting", in relation to a society, includes, where the rules of that society
so allow, a meeting of delegates appointed by members;

"member of the family" means father, mother, grandfather, grandmother,
step-father, step-mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, husband, wife, son,
daughter, grandson, granddaughter, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister,
half-brother, half-sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, first cousin,
son-in-law or daughter-in-law, and in deducing any relationship for the
purposes of this definition a person adopted under the Adoption Act (Northern
Ireland) 1967 or any enactment repealed by that Act or by any enactment so
repealed or under an order authorising an adoption made anywhere in Great
Britain, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands shall be treated as the
legitimate offspring of the adopter or adopters;

"the Minister" and "the Ministry" mean respectively the Minister and Ministry
of Commerce;

"officer", in relation to a registered society, includes any treasurer,
secretary, member of the committee, manager or servant of the society other
than a servant appointed by the society's committee, but does not include an
auditor appointed by the society in accordance with the requirements of
this Act;

"persons claiming through a member", in relation to a registered society,
includes the heirs, executors or administrators and assignees of a member and,
where nomination is allowed, his nominee;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations under this Act;

"property" includes all real, personal or heritable and moveable estate,
including books and papers;

"registered", in relation to the name or an office of a society, means for the
time being registered under this Act;

"registered rules", in relation to a registered society, means the rules of
the society registered or deemed to be registered under this Act as for the
time being in force after any amendment thereof so registered;

"registered society" means, subject to section 102, a society registered or
deemed to be registered under this Act;

"registrar" means the officer appointed to perform in Northern Ireland the
functions of a registrar of friendly societies, and "assistant registrar"
means the officer appointed to assist the registrar in the performance of
those functions;

"subsidiary" has the meaning assigned to it by section 47;

"year of account", in relation to a registered society, means any period
required by section 48 to be included in an annual return of that society.

(2) In this Act "the current year of account", in relation to the appointment
of an auditor or auditors, means the year of account in which the question of
that appointment arises, and "the preceding year of account" means the
year of account immediately preceding the current year of account.

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