Penalty.
Charges.
Forfeiture.
Service of
summons, etc.
Power to make rules.
Penalty for breach of rule.
Societies on declaration to be
entitled to
the following privileges. Property how deemed
to be vested.
Society how to sue and
be sued.
Suits not to abate by death, ete.
Jud ments
how to be put in force.
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(4.) Any person who may fail to comply with any onder that he shall permit his photograph to be taken shall be Hable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
20. No person shall be charged with an offence under this Ordinance or under any Rule made under it except on the complaint of the Registrar.
21. Any books, accounts, writings, banners, insignia or other property belonging to any unlawful Society shall be disposed of as the Registrar subject to the instructions of the Governor-in-Commeil may direct.
22. In every ease where personal service of any sum- mous issued under this Ordinance or under any rule made thereunder cannot be effected, it shall be sufficient service to affix one copy thereof outside the premises (if any) of the Society in respect of which such summons is issued and to leave another copy thereof at the registered address or last known place of abode or business of the person on whom it is desired to serve the summons. Sufficient service of all notices and other documents issued under this Ordinance or under any rule made hereunder can be effected in a similar way.
23.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council may from time to time muke Rules to prescribe the manner of registering Societies under this Ordinance and to fix fees for the registration of Societies and generally to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2.) Any person committing a breach of any such rule shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not ex- ceeding twenty-five dollars.
24. Every Registered Society and every Exempted Society declaring by its managers its desire in this behalf shall, upon such declaration made to the Registrar of So- cieties and registered by him, be entitled to the benefit of the following provisions, that is to say :--
(i.) The moveable property of such Society, if not vested in trustees, shall be deemed to be vested for the time being in the governing body of such Society, and in all proceedings eivil and criminal may he described as the property of the governing body of such Society by their proper title.
(i.) Every sneh Society may sue or be sued in the me of such one of its members as shall be declared to and registered by the Registrar of Societies as the public officer of the Society for this purpose, and, if no such person shall be registered, it shall be competent for any person having a claim or demand against the Society to sue the Society in the name of any person registered as a manager of the Society. () No suit or proceeding in any Civil Court shall abate or discontinue by reason of the person by or against whom such suit or proceeding shall have been brought or continued dying, or ceas- ing to fill the character in the name whereof he shall have sued or been sued, but the same suit or proceeding shall be continued in the name of or against the successor of such person. (iv) No judgment in any suit shall be put in force against the person or property. of the person sued, but against the property of the Society. The application for execution shall set forth the judgment, the fact of the party against whom it shall have been recovered having sued or having been sued, as the case may be, on behalf of the Society only, and shall require to have the judgment enforced against the property of the Society,