(1) Subject to any regulations to be made under this Act, the assistant registrars for Scotland and Ireland respectively shall exercise the functions and powers formerly vested -

(a) as respects trade unions, in the registrars of friendly societies in Scotland and Ireland; and

(b) as respects building societies, in the registrars of building societies in Scotland and Ireland; and

(c) as respects benefit building societies and societies instituted for purposes of science literature or the fine arts, in Scotland, in the Lord Advocate or his deputes appointed to certify the rules of any such societies, and, in Ireland, in any barristers appointed for the like purpose;

and shall be entitled to receive all fees payable to those registrars, the Lord Advocate or his deputes and those barristers respectively; and all provisions in any Acts of Parliament relating to those persons respectively shall be construed as applying to those assistant registrars.

(2) Subject as aforesaid, the assistant registrars for Scotland and Ireland shall -

(a) send to the central office copies of all such documents registered or recorded by them as the chief registrar may direct: and

(b) record such documents and matters as may be sent to them for record from the central office, and such other documents and matters as are in this Act required to be recorded: and