146 APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI 



Rules. 



Rules. 27. (i) The Local Government may, for the whole or any 



part of the province and for any society or class of societies, 

 make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act. 



(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality 

 of the foregoing power, such rules may — 



(a) Prescribe the forms to be used in applying for the 



registration of a society and the procedure in the 

 matter of such applications ; 



(b) Prescribe the conditions to be complied with by 



persons applying for registration and by persons 

 applying for admission or admitted as members, and 

 provide for the election and admission of members 

 from time to time, and the amount of payment to be 

 made and interests to be acquired before exercising 

 rights of membership ; 



{c) Provide for the withdrawal and expulsion of members 

 and for the payments to be made to members who 

 withdraw or are expelled and for the liabilities of 

 past members ; 



{d) Provide for the mode in which the value of a deceased 

 member's interest shall be ascertained, and for the 

 nomination of a person to whom such interest may 

 be paid or transferred ; 



(c) Subject to the provisions of section 12, prescribe the 



maximum number of shares or portion of the capital 

 of a society which may he held by a member ; 



(/) Prescribe the payments to be made and the con- 

 ditions to be complied with by members applying 

 for loans, the period for which loans may be made, 

 and the amount which may be lent to an individual 

 member ; 



(g) Prescribe the" proportion to the total liabilities to be 

 attained by the reserve fund and the rate to which 

 interest on loans to members is to be reduced before 

 profits may be distributed to members of a rural 

 society ; 



(h) Regulate the manner in which capital may be raised 

 by means of shares or debentures or otherwise ; 



(i) Provide for general meetings of the members, and for 

 the procedure at such meetings, and the powers to 

 be exercised by such meetings ; 



(j) Provide for the appointment, suspension, and removal 

 of the members of the committee and other officers, 

 and for the procedure at meetings of the committee, 



