The Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1876
WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to industrial and provident societies, and to assimilate the same in certain respects to the law relating to friendly societies : Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: