Australian Mutual Provident Society’s Act 1910 (NSW)

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Act of 1857, 7 Vic. No. 10,

Establishment of Australian Mutual Provident Society.

An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to the Australian Mutual Provident Society ; and to amend the same. [28th July, 1910.]

HEREAS by an Act of the Legislature of the State (formerly Colony) of New South Wales, passed in the seventh year of

the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and numbered ten, after reciting, amongst other things, that it was desirable to encourage the foundation of friendly socicties for the purposes therein mentioned, it was enacted that it should be lawful for any number of persons to form themselves into and to establish a society for the purposes of raising, from time to time, by subscription of the several members of every such society, or by voluntary contributions or donations, funds for the mutual relief or maintenance of the members thereof, their wives, children, relations, or nominecs, in sickness, infancy, advanced age, widowhood, or any other natural state or contingency, whereof the occurrence is susceptible of calculation by ~way of average, or for any other purpose which is not illegal: And whereas, under and in pursuance of the said Act, a certain Society was established, and is still subsisting in the City of Sydney, in the said State, called the Australian

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Mutual Provident Society, for the purpose of raising funds by the

mutual contributions of the members thereof, or otherwise, for

assurances on their own. lives, or on the lives of other persons; for

the assurance of joint lives and survivorships; for the purchasing,

granting, and sale of annuities ecrtain or on lives, present, deferred, or reversionary ; for the purchasing and granting of endowments, and for