91. Sec. 1—Should any brother make known to any person not a member of this Order any of the business, the secrets, the grip, password, sign, or countersign, or should a brother make known to a person not duly and legally initiated a member of the Order any objection made in Court to the admission of a candidate, or the name of a brother making such objection, he shall pay a fine of 10s., or be expelled; or should a brother, except the Chief Ranger or Secretary, give the password and countersign to another brother, either in or out of Court, or should a brother make known any resolution, or the discussion used in any meeting of this Order, to a person who does not belong to it, he shall also be fined according to the decision of the Appeal Committee.

Sec. 2—Any brother who has incurred the disgrace of expulsion from the Order shall not be re-admitted without the consent of a majority of the members of the Court, and confirmed at the following District Meeting; or should a member be convicted by a jury of his country, or summarily convicted by a magistrate or magistrates, of felony, larceny, or embezzlement, he may be expelled by a Committee of the Court; and should a member be convicted of perjury, or of any misappropriation of the funds or property of the Court under the Friendly Societies' Act, he shall be expelled by striking his name off the books of the Court on production of a certified copy of the said conviction. Any member also who may have been proved guilty of fraud, or any disgraceful conduct or offence calculated to bring disgrace upon the Order, before any recognised Arbitration Committee of the Order (provided a charge has been preferred against him as required by these rules), he shall be expelled, or suffer such less penalty as the Committee before which the charge is laid may deem it necessary to inflict. The names of all members expelled shall be published in the reports of the Executive Council, but the name of no member who may be expelled by an Arbitration Committee of the Order shall be so published until he has had an opportunity of making an page 42 appeal against his expulsion to the next higher Arbitration Committee. Nevertheless, should a brother be found guilty of offences alluded to by a jury of his country, or a magistrate or magistrates, and a District meeting, establish his innocence, the law of expulsion and consequences, shall not apply to his case. Should a convicted member on the expiration of the term of his imprisonment shew by his good conduct for the space of twelve months a sincere repentance of his offence, and lead a sober, honest, and virtuous life, he may on application to the Court, and with the consent of the District, be eligible for re-instatement on payment of all arrears; but should he be found guilty of a second offence, he shall be for ever expelled the Order.

Sec. 3—No fine shall be registered against any brother upon any complaint made without his first having been duly summoned to answer such complaint, save and except those for absence of members at summoned meetings, officers at time of opening the Court, or offence committed in Court, when the Chief Ranger shall inflict such fines without mitigation.

92. All fines except those to the District shall be appropriated to the Management Fund, and any member breaking a law for which there is no specified fine shall be fined, at the discretion of the Appeal Committee, a sum not exceeding £5 sterling.

The infliction of a fine for violation of a law shall not legalise the act, but the law shall still be carried out as though no fine had been inflicted; but any fine inflicted on a brother by a District meeting, Appeal Committee, or the District Officers in pursuance of law shall be recoverable from and payable by the Court.