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(4.) The Governor-in-Council shall not refuse permission to any Society to be registered under this Ordinance unless it shall appear that such Society is likely to be used for unlawful purposes or for purposes incompatible with the peace or good order of the Colony or that its action and proceedings are calculated to excite tumult or disorder in China or to excite persons to crime in China.
5. The Registrar shall cause to be published in the Annual Gazette in April of each year a list of all existing Societies registers to registered or exempted from registration.
be published.
Cessation of
6. If the Registrar shall have reason to believe that any Registered or Exempted Society has ceased to exist, he existence of
a Society. may publish in the Gazette a notification calling upon such Society to furnish him with proof of its existence within three months from the date of such notification, and if at the expiration of such three months the Governor-in-Coun- cil is satisfied that the Society has ceased to exist a notifi- cation to that effect shall be published in the Gazette and the Society shall be deemed to have ceased to exist from the date of such publication.
7.--(1.) The Registrar may at any time order any Exempted Exempted Society to, and the said Society thereupon shall, furnish him with
(4.) a true and complete copy of the constitution' and rules of the Society in force at the date of such order;
(b.) a true and complete list of the officers of the Society and a true statement of the number of its members.
(2.) The Governor-in-Council may at any time order any Exempted Society to, and the said Society thereupon shall, furnish such information concerning the Society as he may see fit to require.
Societies to furnish information.
8. The Registrar may at any time order any Registered Registered Society to, and the said Society thereupon shall, furnish Societies to him with such of the information prescribed as he may information. think fit.
furnish
9.-(1.) The obligatious imposed upon Societies by Officers of a sections 7 and 8 shall be deemed to be personal obligations Society to he
personally upon the president and secretary and upon all members responsible. of committee of every such Society, or, if such offices do not exist, then upon all persons holding positions in such Society analogous to those of president, secretary and mem- ber of committee, and upon all persons managing or assist- ing in the management of such Society.
(2.) In case any Exempted or Registered Society shall Penalty. fail to comply with any order under or with any of the provisions of sections 7 or 8 each of the persons men- tioned in the last preceding sub-section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not execeding twenty-five dollars.
10. On and after the first day of January, 1912, every Unlawful Society not being a Registered Society or an Exempted Soieties, Society shall be deemed to be an unlawful Society.
Penalties on managers
11. Any person managing or assisting in the manage- ment of any unlawful Society shall be liable on summary and assistant conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding managers.
twelve months.
12.-(1.) Any person being or acting as a member of an Penalties ou unlawful Society shall be liable ou summary conviction members or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to im- persons prisonment for a period not exceeding six months.
attending meetings of unlawful
(2.) Any person attending a meeting of an unlawful Society,
Society shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to imprisonment not exceeding three months.
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