Appointment
(1) The first auditor of a friendly society or registered branch may be appointed by the committee of management of the society or branch at any time before the first general meeting of the society or branch following the end of its initial financial year; and an auditor so appointed shall hold office until the conclusion of that meeting.
(2) If the committee of management fails to exercise its powers under sub-paragraph (1) above, those powers may be exercised by the society or branch in general meeting.
2 The committee of management, or the society or branch in general meeting, may fill any casual vacancy in the office of auditor; but while any such vacancy continues, the surviving or continuing auditor or auditors (if any) may act.
(1) If at any annual general meeting of a friendly society or registered branch no auditor is appointed or re-appointed, the appropriate authority may appoint a person to fill the vacancy; and the society or branch shall, withi
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