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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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