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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 45

Definitions

Definitions.

3. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following terms have the meanings hereinafter respectively assigned to them:—

"The Registrar" means the person appointed to be Registrar for the purposes of this Act as herein provided:

"Land" includes hereditaments and chattels real:

"Property" means all real and personal estate (including books and papers):

"Registered society" means a society registered or deemed to be registered under this Act:

"Industrial assurance company" means any company, as defined by "The Life Assurance Companies page 6 Act, 1873," which grants assurances on any one life for a less sum than twenty pounds, and which receives premiums or contributions by means of collectors at less periodical intervals than two months: "Amendment of rule" includes a new rule, and a resolution rescinding a rule:

"Rules" means rules for the time being:

"Branch" means any number of the members of a society, under the control of a central body, having a separate fund, administered by themselves or by a committee of officers appointed by themselves:

"Persons claiming through a member" includes the heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns of a member, and also his nominees where nomination is allowed:

"Collector" includes every paid officer, agent, or person, howsoever remunerated, who, by himself or by any deputy or substitute, collects contributions for a society or holds any interest in a collecting book of the same, but does not include—
(a.)The secretary or other officer of a branch of a society who receives contributions on behalf of such society, or of any other branch of the same;
(b.)Any officer appointed to superintend and receive moneys from collectors within a specified area, and not being himself a collector as hereinbefore defined;
(c.)Any agent appointed and remunerated by members, and not under the control of the society, or of any officer thereof:

"Secretary" means the officer appointed by the society to act in that capacity, or the clerk or person who keeps the books and accounts of the society.

"Officer" extends to any trustee, treasurer, secretary, or member of the committee of management of a society, or person appointed by the society to sue and be sued on its behalf:

"Meeting" includes (where the rules of a society so allow) a meeting of delegates appointed by members:

"Gazette" means the New Zealand Gazette.