Corresponding societies' Acts, not to affect registered societies.

(1.) No society or registered branch, or meeting of a, society or registered branch, shall be affected by any of the provisions of the Acts of the thirty-ninth George the Third, chapter seventy-nine, or the fifty-seventh George the Third, chapter nineteen, if in such society or registered branch or at such meeting no business is transacted other than that which directly and immediately relates to the objects of the society or registered branch as declared in the registered rules thereof, but such society or registered branch and all officers of the same shall, on request in writing by two Justices of the Peace, give full information to such Justices of the nature, objects, proceedings, and practices of the society or registered branch, in default whereof the provisions of the Acts in this section referred to shall, so far as applicable, be in force in respect of such society or registered branch.