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(4) If any person summoned by the Registrar or an ssistant Registrar under this section shall without lawful excuse fail to comply with any obligation imposed upon him by sub-section (2) or shall give information which the Registrar or Assistant Registrar believes to be false, the Registrar or Assistant Registrar may, if he considers it advisable to provide for the future identification of such person, order that a photograph and impressions of finger- prints of such person be taken at such time and in such place and manner as the Registrar or Assistant Registrar may think fit.
(5) Any person who refuses to comply with such order or who obstructs compliance with such order may be arrested and detained in custody and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
(6) No statement made by a person summoned before the Registrar or an Assistant Registrar under the provisions of this section shall subject him to any arrest or criminal prosecution, or be proved against him in any criminal proceeding, except a prosecution for failing to answer truthfully under this section.
Assistant Registrar for disposal in such maññer as he may see fit.
23. Every summons, notice or other document issued under Service of this Ordinance, or under any rule made hereunder, shall be deemed summons. to have been validly and effectually served, if served in the manner prescribed by the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, for the service of Ordinance summonses under that Ordinance.
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1932.
24. In any prosecution under this Ordinance the Magistrate Evidence. may refer, for the purpose of evidence, to "The Triad Society or Heaven and Earth Association" by William Stanton and to any other published book or articles on the subject of unlawful societies. in general or of particular unlawful societies which the Magistrate may consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate.
25. (1) Any local society in existence at the date of the com- Transitional mencement of this Ordinance shall make application for registration provision. in accordance with section 5 within thirty days of such date.
(2) Notwithstanding section 9 no such society (not being a Triad Society) shall be deemed to be an unlawful society until such period of thirty days has elapsed and such society has failed to obtain an order for registration or exemption from registration.
26. (1) The Governor in Council may from time to time make Rules. rules for the purposes following or any of them :-
(a) to prescribe the
the manner of exemption and registration of societies under this Ordinance;