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Unlawful societies.

Penalties on manager of unlawful

society.

Penalties on

•

member of

unlawful

scaiety.

Persons allowing imlawful society on premises.

Presumption of existence of a society.

3.

positions in such society analogous to those of president, secre-

tary and member of committee, and upon all persons managing or

assisting in the management of such society.

(2) In case any exempted or registered society fails to

comply with any order under section 6 or 7, cach of the persons men- tioned in sub-section (1) of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exccoding five hundred dollars.

9.

Every society, not being a registered society or an

pted society, shall be deemed to be an unlawful society.

exempt

10. Any person who manages or assists in the management of

any unlawful society shall be liable on summary conviction to a

fine not exceeding three thousand dollars and to imprisonment for

a term not exceeding three years.

11.

Any person who is or acts as a member of an unlawful society

or attends a meeting of an unlawful society shall be liable on summary

conviction to a fine not cxceeding one thousand dollars and to

imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

12.

Any person who knowingly allows a meeting of an unlawful

socioty, or of members of an unlawful society, to be held in any house, building or place belonging to or occupied by him, or over which he has control, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine

not exceeding one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for a term not

exceeding one year.

13. (1) If in any prosecution for an offence under this Ordi-

nance it is proved that a club, company, partnership, or association exists(and it is not proved that it is a registered or an exempted society, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the

club, company, partnership, or association is a society within the

meaning of this Ordinance.

(2) If in any prosecution for an offence under this Ordi-

nance it is proved that a club, company, partnership or association exists, it shall not be necessary to prove that the society possesses a name or under what name it has been formed or is usually known.