to such trustee or trustees to be entitled to the effects of any deceased member who has died intestate, without having appointed any nominee as aforesaid, the payment of any such sum shall be valid and effectual with respect to any demand from any other person or persons as next of kin of such deceased member, or as the lawful representative or representatives of such member, against the funds of such society, or against the trustees thereof; but nevertheless such next of kin or representative shall have his or her lawful remedy for such money so paid as aforesaid against the person or persons who shall have received the same. SEC. 38. If any person shall become a member of more than one society whereby certain benefits shall accrue on account of the same kind of assurance from more than one society, it shall not be lawful for him, or for any person entitled through or under him, or by reason of his No member to receive more than £200, or £30 a year, from any number of societies. membership, or for any number of such persons in the aggregate, to receive more than £200, or, in the case of annuities, £30 a year, from such societies collectively; and in any case where a person shall so as aforesaid be a member of more than one society, and he or any other person or persons shall be entitled to any benefit in gross, or by way of annuity, from any such society, he, or (as the circumstances may require) every such other person, shall, before he shall receive any such benefit from any of such societies, make and sign a declaration that the total value of all benefits accruing or which shall have accrued in respect of any one kind of assurance does not exceed the value of £200, or, in the case of annuities, £30 a year; and it shall be lawful for any society to require any member, such or any other who shall be entitled to person any benefit, before he shall receive the same, to make and sign a declaration to the same effect, or that such member was not, when the benefit accrued, a member of any other association; and if any person shall knowingly make any false or fraudulent declaration in any such case, he shall be guilty of misdemeanour. No money to be paid on death of a child without by a medical a certificate man. By Sec. 2 of the Act 21 & 22 Vic. c. 101 it is enacted that in any society in which a sum of money may be insured, payable on the death of a child under the age of ten years, for the funeral expenses of such child, it shall not be lawful to pay any sum so insured, unless the person who shall apply for such payment shall produce a Certificate signed by a qualified medical practitioner, stating the probable cause of death of such child, and if any trustee or officer of such society, upon an insurance of a sum payable on the death of any child under the age of ten years, shall knowingly pay a sum which shall raise the whole amount receivable from one or more than one society, for the funeral expenses of a child under the age of five years, to a sum exceeding £6, or of a child between the ages of five and ten years, to a sum exceeding £10, or shall pay any sum without endorsing the amount on the back or at the foot of the medical Certificate aforesaid, or if any parent or other person, who shall apply for such payment, to more than one society, shall produce to the trustees or officers of one society, any other or different Certificate than that which he shall have produced to the trustees or officers of any other society, such trustee, officer, parent, or other person, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5, for every such act, upon conviction before two Justices of the county or borough in which such child shall have died. Provided that if the said child shall have been attended immediately before its death, by the medical officer of any Union, on account of such Union, he shall deliver to the parents or friends of the deceased child, upon their application, a Certificate stating the probable cause of death of such child, and shall not be entitled to receive any fee for the same, and if such child shall not have been attended by such medical officer as aforesaid, nor by any qualified medical practitioner, the medical officer of the Union or Parish in which such child shall have been resident, shall deliver to the parents or friends of the deceased child, a Certificate stating the probable cause of death of such child, and shall be entitled to receive from the parties applying for the same, a fee of one shilling. PART VII. VOLUNTEERS, EXTRA CONTRIBUTION PAYABLE BY. Extra con tribution may be demanded of a member serving in the militia. SEC. 47. In any case where the Rules of any society already enrolled or certified, have provided that a member shall be deprived of any benefit by reason of his enrolment or service in the militia, it shall be lawful for the trustees of such society to require of any member a contribution exceeding the rate of contribution hitherto payable by such member, to an amount not exceeding one-tenth of such rate, during the time such member shall be serving out of the United Kingdom, or to suspend all claim of such member to any benefits of such society, and all claim of the society to any contributions payable by such member during the time he may be serving in the militia out of the United Kingdom. Provided that such suspension shall cease so soon as the said member shall return to the United Kingdom, and he shall thereupon be replaced on the same footing as before he went abroad with the regiment to which he belongs. By the Acts 17 & 18 Vic. c. 105, s. 44, "An Act to amend the Law relating to the Militia in England and Wales;" 22 & 23 Vic. c. 40, s. 23, "An Act for the establishment of a Reserve Volunteer force of Seamen, and for the Government of the same;" 23 Vic. c. 13, "An Act to Prevent the Members of Benefit Societies from forfeiting their interest therein by being enrolled in Yeomanry or Volunteer Corps ;" and 26 & 27 Vic. c. 65, s. 44, "An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Acts relating to the Volunteer Force not to incur in Great Britain ;"- -no man by reason of en Members of benefit societies forfeiture as volunteers, &c. Provision in case of disputes arising. by enrolment rolment or service in the Militia, Naval Coast Volunteers, Naval Reserve Volunteer force, Yeomanry, or Volunteers, or his engagement or service in the Volunteer Permanent Staff, shall lose or forfeit any interest in his society, notwithstanding the Rule of such society to the contrary; and in case any dispute shall arise between any such society and any such man, by reason of such enrolment, entry, or service, it shall be considered as being a dispute directed by the Rules of such society, to be decided by Justices of the Peace, pursuant to the provisions of the Acts in force relating to Friendly Societies. |