281(1)Where two or more lodges or branches of a society, though separately incorporated, are under the financial or administrative control of a central governing body in the Province or a duly authorized provincial representative of the society, such governing body if incorporated or such provincial representative of the society, may, if the Superintendent thinks proper, be dealt with as the society.

281(2)In the case of a society incorporated elsewhere than in the Province the central governing or controlling body in the Province incorporated by virtue of the law of the Province may, if the Superintendent thinks proper, be dealt with as the society.