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dealt with according to law.

20.

(1) The Registrer or in Assistant Registrar may summon before him any person who he has reason to believe to be able to give any information as to the existence or operations of any unlawful society, or suspected unlawful society, or as to the operations of any registered society or cxempted society.

(2) The person se summoned shall attend at the hour and place in the summons specified, and produce all documents in his custody, possession or power relating to such society or suspected society, and answer truthfully all questions which the Registrar or an Assistant Registrar puts to him.

(3) The Registrar and every Assistant Registrar may adminis- ter oaths to and examine on oath any person summoned before him under this section.

(4) If any person summoned by the Registrar or an Assistant Registrar under this section refuses to give such information, or gives information which the Registrar or Assistant Registrar believes to be false, or which appears to implicate him in an offence under this

Ordinance, the Registrar or Assistant Registrar nay, 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 tanner as the Registrar or

Assistant Registrar thinks fit.

(5) If such person refuses to comply with such order, he may be arrested and detained in custody and brought before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law.

(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 of section 15 and of persons arrested under the provisions of section 19, no person shall be charged with an offence under this Ordinance