Limitations of benefits.

28. No member of a registered friendly society, nor any person claiming through a member, shall be entitled to receive more than two hundred pounds by way of gross sum, together with any bonuses or additions declared upon assurances not exceeding that amount, or (except as provided by section five of this Act) fifty pounds a year by way of annuity, from any one or more such societies; and any such society may require a member, or person claiming through a member, to make and sign a statutory declaration that the total amount to which such member or person is entitled from one or more such societies does not exceed the sums aforesaid; and any person knowingly making a false or fraudulent declaration in the matter shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.