of Bachelor in 3. All persons who have obtained from any university of the Qualifications United Kingdom legally authorised to confer the same the degree Surgery may of Bachelor in Surgery shall be permitted and are hereby em- be registered powered to register the same as a qualification under "The Medical under the Act," anything in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding. CHAPTER 41. An Act to remove Restrictions on the granting of Qualifi- BE E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same: Medical Act. extended. 1. The powers of every body entitled under the Medical Act to Power to grant grant qualifications for registration shall extend to the granting of qualification any qualification for registration granted by such body to all persons without distinction of sex: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall render compulsory the exercise of such powers, and that no person who but for this Act would not have been entitled to be registered shall, by reason of such registration, be entitled to take any part in the government, management, or proceedings of the universities or corporations mentioned in the said Medical Act. Medical Act as 2. This Act shall be taken to be incorporated with the Medical Act incorAct, as amended by the Act of the twenty-second year of Her porated with Majesty, chapter twenty-one, and the Medical Act as so amended amended by and any other Act amending the Medical Act shall be construed 22 Vict. c. 21. and have effect accordingly. CHAPTER 42. An Act to amend the Law respecting certain Returns from the reign of King George the Fourth, chapter eighty-four, intituled "An Act for the Transportation of Offenders from Great Britain," it is enacted as follows: The said superintendent shall from time to time make returns "specifying the name of every person in custody in each of such places of confinement, the offence of which he shall have been guilty, the court before which he shall have been convicted, and "the sentence of such court, together with his age and bodily state, " and his behaviour whilst in custody; and also the names of such "offenders as shall have died whilst in such custody, or shall have "escaped, or have been lawfully discharged from the same, which "returns shall be made on the first day of January, April, July, and October in every year to one of His Majesty's Principal "Secretaries of State, on the oath of the overseer of each place of "confinement, such oath to be made before a justice of the peace :" And it is expedient to make further provisions respecting such Short title. Returns from Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the "Convict Prisons Returns Act, 1876." 2. There shall be from time to time sent to one of Her Majesty's convict prisons Principal Secretaries of State such returns respecting the prisoners in every place of confinement to which the recited Act applies as such Secretary of State may from time to time direct. to be sent. Repeal of s. 14 of recited Act. Reckoning of service in office in the the Isle of Man for pur 3. Section fourteen of the above-recited Act is hereby repealed. CHAPTER 43. An Act to make Provision respecting the Superannuation Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. Where a person employed in a permanent office in the service of Her Majesty in the government of the Isle of Man, qualifying government of him to receive a superannuation allowance out of the duties of customs collected in the said Isle, has been employed also in some other civil capacity, service in the said office shall, for the purposes poses of super- of the Superannuation Act, 1859, and the Colonial Governors Pensions Acts, 1865 and 1872, be deemed to be service in the permanent Civil Service of the State, and the said office shall be deemed to be an office in a public department, and the said person shall be qualified to receive a superannuation allowance or pension accordingly: annuation allowance or pension. Provided that the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall determine according to the circumstances of the case and the principles of the said Acts, the portion of every such superannuation allowance or pension which is payable on account of service in the said office in the government of the Isle of Man, and that portion shall be deducted from the superannuation allowance or pension payable out of moneys provided by Parliament, and shall be paid as part of the necessary expenses attending the government of the Isle of Man out of the duties of customs collected in that island. "Civil capacity" in this section means the permanent Civil Service of the State, and also the administration of the government of any colony within the meaning of the Colonial Governors Pensions Act, 1865. 2. This Act may be cited as the Isle of Man (Officers) Act, 1876. CHAPTER 44. An Act to amend the Law relating to Legal Practitioners practitioners in Ireland: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Legal Practitioners (Ireland) Short title. Act, 1876." c. 53. s. 2. 2. The Act specified in the first column of the schedule annexed Amendment of hereto is hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column 12 & 13 Vict. of the said schedule, except as to anything heretofore duly done thereunder, and except so far as may be necessary for the purpose of supporting and continuing any proceedings taken before the passing of this Act. It shall be lawful for any judge of any of the superior courts of law and equity to authorise an attorney or solicitor to commence an action or suit for the recovery of his fees, charges, or disbursements against the party chargeable therewith, and also to refer his bill of fees, charges, and disbursements, and the demand of such attorney and solicitor thereupon, to be taxed and settled by the proper officer of the court in which such reference shall be made, although one month shall not have expired from the delivery of the bill of fees, charges, or disbursements, on proof to the satisfaction of the said judge that there is probable cause for believing that the party chargeable therewith is about to quit Ireland, or to become a bankrupt or a liquidating or compounding debtor, or to take any other steps or do any other act which, in the opinion of the judge, would tend to defeat or delay such attorney or solicitor in obtaining payment. tice to charge costs. 3. In every case in which an attorney or solicitor shall be Power to employed to prosecute or defend any suit, matter, or proceeding in courts of jusany court of justice, it shall be lawful for the court or judge before property rewhom any such suit, matter, or proceeding has been heard or shall covered with be depending to declare such attorney or solicitor entitled to a payment of charge upon the property recovered or preserved, and upon such declaration being made such attorney or solicitor shall have a charge upon and against and a right to payment out of the property, of whatsoever nature, tenure, or kind the same may be, which shall have been recovered or preserved through the instrumentality of any such attorney or solicitor, for the taxed costs, charges, and expenses of or in reference to such suit, matter, or proceeding; and it shall be lawful for such court or judge to make such order or orders for taxation of and for raising and payment of such costs, charges, and expenses out of the said property as to such court or judge shall appear just and proper; and all conveyances and acts done to defeat or which shall operate to defeat such charge or right shall, unless made to a bonâ fide purchaser for value without notice, be absolutely void and of no effect as against such charge or right: Provided always, that no such order shall be made by any such court or judge in any case in which the right to recover payment of such costs, charges, and expenses is barred by any Statute of Limitations. Short title of Extent of Act. Definitions. CHAPTER 45. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to HEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to industrial and provident societies, and to assimilate the same in certain respects to the law relating to friendly societies: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1876. 2. This Act shall extend to Great Britain and Ireland, and the Channel Islands. 3. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the following terms shall have the meanings herein-after respectively assigned to them: The Treasury" shall mean the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury : England" shall include the Channel Islands (except as hereinafter provided): "The registrar" shall mean for England the central office established by the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, and for Scotland or Ireland the assistant registrar of friendly societies for either country respectively; "the central office" shall mean the central office so established; and "chief registrar" and "assistant registrar" shall mean chief registrar and assistant registrar of friendly societies respectively: Country" shall mean England, Scotland, or Ireland, as the case The several ridings of the county of York, and the several Channel "Land" shall include hereditaments, and in Scotland heritable Property" shall mean all real and personal estate (including books and papers): Registered society" shall mean a society registered or deemed to be registered under this Act: "Amendment of rule" shall include a new rule, and a resolution rescinding a rule: Rules" shall mean rules for the time being: The committee" shall mean the committee of management or other directing body of a society: "Persons claiming through a member" shall include the heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns of a member, and also his nominees where nomination is allowed: "Officer" shall extend to any trustee, treasurer, secretary, member of the committee, manager, or servant, other than a servant appointed by the committee of a society: 66 Meeting" shall include (where the rules of a society so allow) a meeting of delegates appointed by members: For Scotland, "court of summary jurisdiction" shall mean the sheriff court of the county: County court" shall mean for Scotland the sheriff court of the county, and for Ireland the Civil Bill Court; for Scotland, "administration" means confirmation, and "misdemeanor " a crime and offence: Summary Jurisdiction Acts" shall mean As to England, the Act 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43, and any Acts As to Scotland, the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, and As to Ireland, within the police district of Dublin metro- Ireland. dule. 4. The Acts set forth in the first schedule hereto shall be repealed Repeal of Acts from the commencement of this Act; but this repeal, or anything in first scheherein contained, shall not affect the past operation of the said Acts, or the force or operation, validity or invalidity, of anything done or suffered, or any bond or security given, right, title, obligation, or liability accrued, contract entered into, or proceedings taken, under any of the said Acts, or under the rules of any society registered or certified thereunder, before the commencement of this Act. 5. Every incorporated society now subsisting whose. rules have Existing been registered or certified under any Act relating to industrial and societies. provident societies, shall be deemed to be a society registered under this Act, and its rules shall, so far as the same are not contrary to any express provision of this Act, continue in force until altered or rescinded. tered. 6. The societies which may be registered under this Act are Societies which societies (herein called industrial and provident societies) for may be regiscarrying on any labour, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, including the buying and selling of land, but as to the business of banking subject to the provisions herein-after contained, of which societies no member other than a society registered |