Members have individual rights set out in the rule.\u00a0 They may not be changed by amendment.\u00a0 They include rights to demand a copy of the rules, rights to inspect one’s accounts, rights to inspect the books of account, rights to see the annual return, rights to have certain disputes determined under the rule by the nominated persons, who takes his or her shares after death.<\/p>\n
Other rights belong to the members collectively. The members collectively may apply to appoint an accountant to examine the society’s books.\u00a0 They may apply to the chief registrar to appoint an inspector to permit enquiry into the society’s affairs.\u00a0 They may require him to call a special \u00a0meeting of the society.\u00a0 Collectively they may execute or administer the dissolution and winding up of the society.<\/p>\n
Members are only liable for the liabilities of the society to the extent that monies unpaid in the shares while a member owe within one year. Their liability to subscribe shares or capitals cannot be increased by amendment of the rule.<\/p>\n\n
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Industrial and Provident Societies The principal legislation for industrial and provident societies is the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893.\u00a0 The entities are body corporates with separate legal identities.\u00a0 They have a separate legal liability from their members, which is accordingly limited. Industrial and provident societies are registered by the Registrar of Friendly Societies.\u00a0 Certain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27428"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30584,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428\/revisions\/30584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}