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Appointment
of Registrars.
Registration of societies.
Annual registers to
No. 47 of 1911.
SOCIETIES.
3. The Registrar General shall be the Registrar of Societies and the Assistant Registrars General shall be Assistant Registrars of Societies.
4.-(1) The Governor-in-Council may order that any society be exempted from registration under this Ordinance, and the societies named in the schedule shall be deemed to have been so exempted unless or until the Governor-in-Council shall otherwise order.
(2) The Governor-in-Council may order that any exempted society be permitted to be registered under this Ordinance, and on such registration being effected such society shall cease to be an exempted society.
(3) The Governor-in-Council, upon application for registration or exemption by any society, may order that such society be permitted on payment of the prescribed fee to be registered under this Ordinance.
(4) The Governor-in-Council shall not refuse permission to any society to be registered under this Ordinance unless it shall appear that such society is likely to be used for unlawful purposes or for purposes incompatible with the peace or good order of the Colony, or that its actions and proceedings are calculated to excite tumult or disorder in China or to excite persons to crime in China.
5. The Registrar shall cause to be published in the Gazette in April of each year a list of all existing societies registered or exempted from registration.
Cessation of existence of a society.
*
Exempted societies to furnish information.
6. If the Registrar shall have reason to believe that any registered or exempted society has ceased to exist, he may publish in the Gazette a notification calling upon such society to furnish him with proof of its existence within 3 months from the date of such notification, and if at the expiration of such period the Governor-in-Council is satisfied that the society has ceased to exist a notification 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 society to, and the said society thereupon shall, 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;
* As amended by No. 17 of 1912,