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. If the Registrar shall have reason to believe that any Cessation of Registered or Exempted Society has ecased to exist, he existence of
a Society. may publish in the Gazette a notification calling upon snch Society to furnish him with proof of its existence within three months from the date of such notification, and if at the expiration of such three months the Governor-in-Coun- cil is satisfied that the Society has ceased to exist a notifi- cation to that effect shall be published in the Gazette and the Society shall be deemed to have ceased to exist from the date of such publication.
7. (1.) The Registrar may at any time order any Exempted Exempted Society to, and the said Society thereupon shall, Societies to
furnish him with
(a.) a true and complete copy of the constitution and rules of the Society in force at the date of such order;
(b.) a true and complete list of the officers of the Society and a true statement of the number of its members.
(2.) The Governor-in-Council may at any time order any Exempted Society to, and the said Society thereupon shall, furnish such information concerning the Society as he uny see fit to require.
furnish information.
8. The Registrar may at any time order any Registered Registered Society to, and the said Society thereupon shall, furnish Societies to him with such of the information prescribed as he may information.
think fit.
furnish
9.-(1.) The obligations imposed upon Societies by Officers of a sections 7 and 8 shall be deemed to be personal obligations Society to be upon the president and secretary and upou all members personally
responsible. of commitice 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 managemont 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.
managers
11. Any person managing or assisting in the manage- Penalties on ment of any unlawful Society shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not execeding and assistant twelve months.
managers.
Penalties of
12.-(1.) Any person being or acting as a member of an unlawful Society shall be liable on summary conviction members or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to im- persons prisonment for a period not exceeding six months,
attending meetings of
(2.) Any person attending a meeting of an unlawful uħlawful Society shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not Society, 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 occupied by him, or over which he has control, shall be assembly liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one premises. thonsand dollars and to imprisonment for a period not Penalty. exceeding six months.
in their