(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, any dispute between -
(a) a member or person claiming through a member or under the rules of a friendly society or registered branch and the society or branch;
(b) a person aggrieved who has ceased to be a member of a friendly society or registered branch, or a person claiming through such a person, and the society or branch or an officer of the society or branch;
(c) a registered branch and the society of which it is a registered branch;
(d) an officer of a registered branch and the society of which it is a registered branch; or
(e) two or more registered branches, or any of their officers,
shall be determined by arbitration in the manner directed by the rules of the society or branch.
(1A) Nothing in subsection (1) above or in rules of a kind mentioned in that subsection prevents any person, in accordance with the scheme for which Part XVI of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 provides (the ombudsman scheme), from havi
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