(1) Any society registered under the principal Act (whether before or after the passing of this Act) . . . may apply to the Registrar in accordance with this Act for the incorporation of any local branch having not less than 15 members, or for the incorporation of a group or of groups of such branches of that society.
(2) No application for the incorporation of a local branch shall be made except with the consent of a majority of the members proposed to be incorporated as a local branch, and no application for the incorporation of a group of branches shall be made except with the consent of a majority of the members of each of those branches.
(3) Any group of local branches may be incorporated notwithstanding that the whole or any number of such branches may be already incorporated.
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 October 1930, by section 2(a) Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1930 (1930 No 17) by omitting the words “and consisting of not less than 500 members”
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Subsection (1) was further amended, as from 1 October 1930, by section 2(b) Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1930 (1930 No 17) by substituting the words “having not less than 15 members, or for the incorporation of a group or of groups of such branches of that society”
for the words “or group of such branches of that society”
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