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8. The Registrar may at any time order any Registered Registered Society to, and the said Society thereupon shall, furuish societies to him with such of the information prescribed as he furnish
may information.
think fit.
responsible.
9.-(1.) The obligations imposed upon Sorieties by Officers of a sections 7 and 8 shall be deemed to be personal obligations Society to be upon the president and secretary and upon all members personally of committee of every such Society, or, if such offices do not exist, then upon all persons holding positions in such Society analogous to those of president, secretary and mem- ber of committee, and upon all persons managing or assist- ing in the management of such Society.
(2.) In case any Exempted or Registered Society shall Penalty. fail to comply with any order under or with any of the provisions of sections 7 or 8 each of the persons men- tioned in the last preceding sub-section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
10. On and after the first day of January, 1912, every Unlawful Society not being a Registered Society or an Exempted Societies. Society shall be deemed to be an unlawful Society.
11. Any person managing or assisting in the manage- Penalties on ment of any unlawful Society shall be liable on summary managers conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding and assistant twelve months.
managers.
12.—(1.) Any person being or acting as a member of an Penalties on unlawful Society shall be liable on summary conviction members or to a fiue not exceeding five hundred dollars and to im- persons prisonment for a period not exceeding six months.
attending meetings of unlawful
(2.) Any person attending a meeting of an unlawful Society.
Society shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to imprisonment not exceeding three months.
unlawful
13. Any person knowingly allowing a meeting of an Persons unlawful Society, or of members of an unlawful Society, allowing to be held in any house, building or place belonging to or assembly occupied by him, or over which he has control, shall be in their liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one premises. thousand dollars and to imprisonment for a period not Penalty. exceeding six months,
definition of
14. If in any prosecution for an offence against the Burden of provisious of this Ordinance it shall be proved that a club, proof as to company, partnership or association exists and is neither a Registered nor an Exempted Society it shall be presumed Society. until the contrary be proved that the club, company, part- nership or association is a Society within the meaning of this Ordinance.
Triad
15.--(1.) When any of the books, accounts, writings, Presumptive banners or insignia of any Society are found in the posses- proof of sion of any person, it shall be presumed, until the contrary membership. be proved, that such person is a member of such Society, Societies and if such Society be a Trial Society or a branch of a unlawful. Triad Society it shall be further presumed that such Society is an unlawful Society.
(2.) When any of the books or accounts of any Society Presumptive are found in the possession of any person it shall be further proof of
managing. presumed, until the contrary be proved, that such person assists in the management of such Society,
order dis-
any zociety.
16-(1.) Whenever it may appear to the Governor-in- Governor-in- Commeil that any Registered Society or any Exempted Council may Society is being used for unlawful purposes, or for pur solution of poses incompatible with the peace or good order of the Colony or that such Society exists mainly for the purpose of gaming or that gaming is carried on habitually and in such a manner and to such a degree as to be dangerous to good order, or that the actions or proceedings of such Society are calculated to excite tumult or disorder in China or to excite persons to crime in China, the Governor-in-Council may order that such Society be dissolved.
(2.) Notification of every such order shall be published in the Gazette, and shall be affixed in a conspicuous man-