(1) Any two or more registered societies may, by special resolution of both or all such societies, become amalgamated together as one society, with or without any dissolution or division of the funds of those societies or either of them.
(2) A registered society may, by special resolution, transfer its engagements to any other registered society which may undertake to fulfil the engagements of that society.
(3) A special resolution by a registered friendly society for an amalgamation or transfer of engagements under this Act shall not be valid without -
(a) the assent thereto of five-sixths in value of the members, given either at the meetings at which the resolution is, according to the provisions of this Act, passed and confirmed, or at one of them, or, if the members were not present thereat, in writing; and
(b) the written consent of every person receiving or entitled to any relief, annuity, or other benefit from the funds of the society, unless the claim of that person is first du
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