Societies.
CHAPTER 151.
SOCIETIES.
[CAP. 151
To provide for the registration of societies and for matters 28 of 1949.
related thereto.
[27th May, 1949.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Societies Short title. Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance-
"society" includes any club, company, partnership, or association of ten or more persons, whatever its nature or object, but does not include-
(a) any company registered under the Companies (Cap. 32.)
Ordinance;
(b) any company or association constituted under Royal Charter, or Royal Letters Patent, or any Imperial Act, or any Ordinance;
(c) any Lodge of Freemasons regularly constituted under any of the registered governing bodies of Freemasons in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
(d) any trade union registered under the Trade Unions (Cap. 64.)
and Trade Disputes Ordinance.
(e) any company, association or partnership, consisting of not more than twenty persons, formed for the sole purpose of carrying on any lawful business; 'exempted society' means any society for the time being exempted from registration by an order of exemption made under this Ordinance;
"registered society" means any society for the time being registered under this Ordinance;
"local society" means any society organized and established in the Colony or having its headquarters or chief place of business in the Colony, and includes any society deemed to be established in the Colony by virtue of section 4;
"office-bearer" of a society means any person who is the president, or vice-president, or secretary or treasurer of such society, or who is a member of the committee or governing body thereof, or who holds in such
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