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Registrar may, if he considers it advisable to make provision for the identification of such person, order that a photograph and impression of his fingerprints shall be taken at such time and in such place and manner as the Registrar or Assistant Registrar thinks 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) Any person who fails to comply with any order that he shall permit his photograph and impression of his fingerprints to be taken shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
21. Except in the case of persons charged under the provisions Consent to of section 15 and of persons arrested under the provisions of section prosecution. 19 and sub-section (5) of section 20, no person shall be charged with an offence under this Ordinance or any rule made thereunder unless the prior consent in writing of the Attorney General has been obtained.
22. Any books, accounts, writings, banners, insignia or other Forfeiture. property belonging to any unlawful society shall upon order of a Magistrate be forfeited and given to the Registrar or to an Assistant Registrar for disposal in such manner 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;