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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989
FOR REGISTRATION WOULD A APPLICATION MUST COMPRISE
SOCIETIES RULES, CONSTITUTION WHICH SHOULD BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
MR BARNES NOTED THAT EACH APPLICATION
BE CONSIDERED ON ITS OWN
MERITS. AN
A PROMOTERS' LIST, AND AN APPLICATION FORM SIGNED BY THREE PROMOTERS.
SOCIETIES MIGHT
THE REGISTER
SOCIETY OR HAD BEEN MADE BY THE
OF THE REGISTRAR EXEMPT IT FROM REGISTRATION AFTER ENQUIRIES DISTRICT OFFICER AND DISTRICT POLICE COMMANDER.
PREMISES HAD RECENTLY BEEN ON REPORTS THAT SOME ASSOCIATION
SOCIETIES USED FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES, MR BARNES SAID SECTION 10 OF THE ORDINANCE, CAP 151, PROVIDED FOR THE CANCELLATION OF SUCH SOCIETIES.
REGISTRATION OF
ORGANISATIONS, CAN BE "CERTAIN SOCIETIES, SUCH AS CHARITABLE EXEMPTED FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SOCIETIES ORDINANCE.
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SECTION "THIS EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CAN BE REMOVED UNDER
PURPOSES, 10 IF THE PREMISES ARE FOUND TO HAVE BEEN USED FOR ILLEGAL HE SAID.
RECEIVED
THAT
WOULD BE CONDUCTED
MIGHT OFFENCES
BE
MR BARNES NOTED THAT SURPRISE INSPECTIONS BY THE POLICE IF INFORMATION BEING COMMITTED INSIDE SOCIETY PREMISES.
WAS
"SECTION 8(3) OF THE SOCIETIES ORDINANCE PROVIDES FOR A
ΤΟ IT ORDERING SOCIETY
DESIST FROM ACTIVITIES TO BE SERVED ON A
OF THE SOCIETY AS SET OUT IN NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OBJECTS ITS CONSTITUTION OR RULES, HE SAID.
NOTICE
WOULD BE GIVEN OF THE
IF THE NOTICE WAS IGNORED, THEN CONSIDERATION TO CANCELLING THE REGISTRATION OR EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION SOCIETY UNDER SECTION 10 OF THE ORDINANCE, MR BARNES SAID.
APPLIED FOR REGISTRATION
OF
REGISTRATION NUMBER OF EXEMPTION
ON THE NUMBER OF SOCIETIES THAT HAD OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, MR BARNES SAID THE NUMBER RESPECTIVELY WAS 242, 235 AND 279, WHEREAS THE FROM REGISTRATION WAS 31, 37 AND 43,
CATEGORIES INCLUDE
ASSOCIATIONS
OF
ALUMNI,
CLANSMEN AND RELIGIOUS, SPORTS,
NATIVES. RECREATIONAL, SPORTS, ARTS AND CULTURAL, TRADERS, BENEVOLENT ORGANISATIONS, AND OWNERS AND TENANTS.
MR BARNES
POINTED
ITS
OPERATING OUT THAT IF ANY ORGANISATION
TO
ATTENTION BY VIRTUE OF POLICE WITHOUT REGISTRATION CAME ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, APPROPRIATE ENFORCEMENT ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN.
"HOWEVER IF IT
REGISTERED DUE TO
AN
IS A BONA FIDE
THE OVERSIGHT,
ORGANISATION
LEGALITIES
REQUIRED
THAT HAS
WILL
NOT
BE
SOCIETIES
WILL
POINTED OUT TO THE ORGANISATION, AND THE REGISTRAR OF CONSIDER REGISTERING IT UPON RECEIPT OF ITS APPLICATION," HE SAID.
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