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INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 102

Great Britain societies.

102.(1) In this section "registered Great Britain society" means a society
which is registered in Great Britain under the law for the time being in force
in Great Britain for purposes corresponding to those of this Act and which
carries on or intends to carry on business in Northern Ireland.

(2) Subject to subsection (8), the registrar shall record copies of the
registered rules of a registered Great Britain society which are sent to him
for the purpose and any registered amendment of those rules so sent.

(3) Where copies of the rules of a registered Great Britain society are
recorded under subsection (2), then, for the purposes of the operation of
this Act, references to a registered society in such, but such only, of the
provisions of this Act as are specified in subsection (4) shall, subject to
subsection (6), include a reference to that society, and for the purposes of
those provisions that society, those rules and any amendment of those rules
registered and recorded as aforesaid shall be deemed to be a society, rules or
an amendment duly registered under this Act.

(4) The provisions of this Act referred to in subsection (3) are
sections 2(2), 3, 5(4), (6) and (7), 6(1)(a), 7(1)(b), (2), (3) and (6),
9(1)(a), 12(3), 13, 14, 15(1)(a)(i), 18(2), 21, 24, 25 to 28, 30, 31(b), 32 to
34, 48(6), 50, 51, 53(5), 54(1), 60, 61(6), 63, 69 to 71, 73 to 75 and 98.

(5) In the application of section 75(3) to a registered Great Britain society,
the reference to the registered office of the society shall be construed as
including a reference to the principal office in Northern Ireland of the
society.

(6) Nothing in this section shall confer any power or impose any obligation or
liability with respect to the taking or refraining from taking of, or a
failure to take, any action outside Northern Ireland; and in the application
of section 54(1) by virtue of this section the reference therein to this Act
shall be construed as a reference to the law for the time being in force in
Great Britain for purposes corresponding to those of this Act.

(7) Article 22 of the Government of Ireland (Companies, Societies, &c.) Order
1922 shall cease to have effect in relation to a
registered Great Britain society.

(8) Subsection (2) shall not apply to a registered Great Britain society the
objects of which are wholly or substantially those set out in section 78(1).


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