Registration of trustees and officers

(1) Within thirty days after the confirmation of the rules of a friendly society, a statement of the names of the trustees signed by at least two trustees and the secretary or clerk duly verified by the solemn declaration of such secretary or clerk, shall be registered in the Registrar General’s office. (2) When any change is made in the trustees of a friendly society by the death, resignation, removal or inability to act of any trustee, and the appointment of any new trustee, the names of such new trustee shall be registered in the Registrar General’s office, in the manner specified in subsection (1) of this section. (3) After registration all hereditaments, moneys, goods, chattels and effects and all titles, securities for money or other obligatory instruments, and evidence or monuments, and all rights or claims, belonging to a friendly society shall be vested in the trustees for the use and benefit of the friendly society, its members, their executors and administrators. (4) After the death or removal of any trustee, the said hereditaments, moneys, goods and other property whatever shall vest in the succeeding trustees for the same estate and interest as the former trustee had, and subject to the same trusts without any assignment or conveyance and also shall, for the purposes of all civil and criminal proceedings concerning the friendly society, be deemed to be the property of the trustees of the friendly society for the time being in his or their proper names without further description. 12 (5) Such trustees shall bring or defend, or cause to be brought or defended any civil or criminal proceedings in any court concerning the property, right or claims of the friendly (6) The trustees may in all cases concerning the property, right or claims of the friendly society, sue or be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law in their proper names as trustees without other description. (7) No suit, action or prosecution shall be discontinued or abate by the death of or removal from office of a trustee, but it shall and may be proceeded in by the remaining or succeeding trustees in the proper name of the person commencing it, and such remaining or succeeding trustees shall pay or receive the like costs as if the action or suit had been commenced in his or their names for the benefit of or to be reimbursed from the funds of the friendly society. (8) A certified copy of the statement registered under subsection (1) of this section, shall be evidence in any proceedings until the contrary is shown, that the persons named therein as trustees are such trustees for all the purposes of this Act, Provided that every treasurer, trustee or other officer shall only be personally responsible and liable for all moneys actually received by him on account of or for the use of the friendly