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the relief or maintenance of the members or subscribers, their husbands, wives, children, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces or wards, during sickness or other infirmity, whether bodily or mental, in old age or in widowhood or for the relief or maintenance of the orphan children of members or subscribers during minority;

the payment of money on the birth of a member’s or subscriber’s child or on the death of a member or subscriber or of the child, husband, wife, parent or grandparent of a member or subscriber or on the death of any other person or for the funeral expenses of the member or subscriber or of the child, husband, or wife of a member or subscriber or of the widow of a deceased member or subscriber; or

the relief or maintenance of the members or subscribers when unemployed or when in distressed circumstances;

“office-bearer”, in relation to a society, means any person who is the president, vice-president, secretary or treasurer of such society or any branch of the society, or who is a member of the committee or governing body of the society, or of any branch of the society or who holds in such society or any branch of such society any office or position analogous to any of those mentioned above;

“political party” means—

any society which by any of its objects or rules, regardless whether such object or rule is its principal object or rule, or constitutes merely an object or rule which is ancillary to its principal object or objects or to its principal rule or rules, makes provision for the society to participate, through its candidates, in elections to the Dewan Rakyat, or to a Dewan Undangan Negeri, or to a local authority, or makes provision for it to seek the appointment or election of a person proposed or supported by it to the

Dewan Negara; or

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any society which, notwithstanding anything contained in its objects or rules, carries on any activity or pursues any objective which involves its participation, through its candidates, in elections to the Dewan Rakyat, or to a Dewan Undangan Negeri, or to a local authority, or which involves it seeking the appointment or election of a person proposed or supported by it to the Dewan

Negara;

“registered society” means any society for the time being registered under section 7;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of Societies appointed under section 3 and includes any Deputy Registrar of Societies appointed under the same section;

“society” includes any club, company, partnership, or association of seven or more persons whatever its nature or object, whether temporary or permanent, but does not include—

any company registered under the provisions of any written law relating to companies for the time being in force in Malaysia;

any company or association constituted under any written law;

any trade union registered or required to be registered under the provisions of any written law relating to trade unions for the time being in force in Malaysia;

any company, association or partnership formed for the sole purpose of carrying on any lawful business that has for its object the acquisition of gain by the company, association or partnership, or by the individual members of the company, association or partnership;

any co-operative society, registered as such, under any written law;

any organization or association in respect of which there is for the time being in force a certificate (which may be granted, refused or cancelled at his discretion) by a person or authority appointed under the provisions

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of the written law for the time being in force relating to the registration of schools that such organization or association forms part of the curriculum of a school; or

any school, management committee of a school, parents association or parents and teachers association registered or exempted from registration under any law for the time being in force regulating schools;

“subscription” means a subscription paid by a member or subscriber to a mutual benefit society and where a mutual benefit society carries on activities other than those of a mutual benefit society means the subscription paid by the member or subscriber for the purpose of obtaining the benefits provided by the rules of the society.

Registered societies to act in fulfilment of the Constitution