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INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 2

2.(1) Subject to subsection (2)

(a)no society shall be registered under this Act if the number of the members
thereof is less than seven; and

(b)an application for the registration of a society under this Act shall be
signed by seven members and the secretary of the society and shall be sent
with two printed copies of the society's rules to the registrar.

(2) A society whose members consist solely of two or more registered societies
may be registered under this Act if the application for registration is signed
by two members of the committee and the secretary of each (or, if more than
three, of each of any three) of the constituent societies and is accompanied
by one printed copy of the registered rules of each of the constituent
societies as well as by two printed copies of the rules of the society sought
to be registered.

(3) On being satisfied that a society has complied with the provisions of
this Act as to registration thereunder, the registrar shall issue to the
society an acknowledgement of registration in the prescribed form which shall
be conclusive evidence that the society is duly registered under this Act
unless it is proved that the registration of the society has been cancelled or
is for the time being suspended.

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