Rules entitled to Registry.

12. No rule or amendment of a rule of a society or branch shall be disentitled to registry by reason of its expressing or implying any subordination to the central body of the same order outside New Zealand, or by reason of its containing any reference to one or more of the general laws of the said order: Provided that such general laws shall be or have been forwarded to the Registrar by such society or branch.

If provision is made in such general laws for any of the matters specified in the Second Schedule to the said Act, the society shall be deemed to have sufficiently complied with subsection one of section twelve of the said Act if reference be made in the rules of the society to the general law or laws making such provision: Provided that nothing herein contained shall have the effect of giving force to any general law that is contrary to any of the express provisions of this or the said Act.