(1) This Act may be cited as the Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1953, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2) Except as provided in section 4, this Act shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1954.

(1) This subsection substituted a new subsection (3) of s 33 of the principal Act.

(2) 

• (a) This paragraph repealed Schedule 2 to the principal Act.

• (b) This paragraph amended s 7(b) of the principal Act.

(3) Section 5 of the Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1922 and the Schedule to that Act are hereby consequentially repealed.

If any society, not being a society incorporated under the principal Act, operates under any name or title of which the word “Incorporated”, or any contraction or imitation of that word, is the last word, every member of the society shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2 for every day upon which that name or title has been used.

(1) In addition to the matters specified in section 6 of the principal Act, the rules of any society may make provision for the making, amendment, or rescission of regulations or bylaws, not inconsistent with the principal Act or with the rules of the society, for such purposes as may be specified in that behalf in the rules.

(2) The making, amendment, or rescission of any regulations or bylaws pursuant to any rules in accordance with this section shall not be deemed to be an alteration of the rules within the meaning of section 21 of the principal Act.

(3) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the date of the commencement of the principal Act.