Penalty.
Charges.
Forfeiture.
Service of
aummons. etc.
Power to make rules.
Penalty for breach of rule.
Societies on declaration
to be
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person refuses to comply with such order he may be arrested and detained in custody until he can conveniently be brought before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
(4.) Any person who may fail to comply with any order that he shall permit his photograph to be taken shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
20. No person shall be charged with an offence under this Ordinance or nuder any Rule made under it except on the complaint of the Registrar.
21. Any books, accounts, writings, baumers, insignia or other property belonging to any unlawful Society shall be disposed of as the Registrar subject to the instructions of the Governor-in-Council may direct.
22. In every use where personal service of any sum- mons issued under this Ordinance or under any rule made thereunder cannot be effected, it shall be sufficient service to affix one copy thereof outside the promises (if any) of the Society in respect of which such summons is issued and to leave another copy thereof at the registered address or list known place of abode or business of the person on whom it is desired to serve the summons. Sufficient service of all notices and other documents issued under this Ordinance or under any rule male hereunder can be effected in a similar way.
23.--(1.) The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make Rules to prescribe the manner of registering Societies under this Ordinance and to fix fees for the registration of Societies and generally to give effect to the provisions of this Ordinance,
(2.) Any person committing a breach of any such rule shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not ex- cording twenty-five dollars.
21. Every Registered Society and every Exempted Society declaring by its managers its desire in this behalf shall, upon such declaration made to the Registrar of So- the following Picties and registered by him; be entitled to the benefit of
the following provisions, that is to say :--
emitied to
privileges.
Property
how deemed
to be vested.
Society how to sue and
be sued.
Suits nor to abate by death, ete.
Jadi utents
how to be put in force.
(1.) The moveable property of such Society, if not vested in trustees, shall be deemed to be vested for the time being in the governing body of such Society, and in al! proccodings civil and criminal may be described as the property of the governing body of such Society by their proper title.
(i.) Every such Society may sue or be sued in the name of such one of its members as shall be declared to and registered by the Registrar of Societies as the public officer of the Society for this purpose, and, if no such person shall be registered, it shall be competent for any person having a claim or demand against the Society to sue the Society in the name of any persou registered as a manager of the Society, (iii) No suit or proceeding in any Civil Court shall abate or discontinue by reason of the person by or against whom such suit or proceeding shall have been brought or continued dying, or ceas - ing to fill the character in the name whereof he shall have sued or been sued, but the same suit or proceeding shall be continued in the name of or against the successor of such person. (iv) No judgment in any suit shall be put in forec against the person or property of the person sued, but against the property of the Society. The application for execution shall set forth the judgment, the fact of the party against whom it shall have been recovered having sued or having been sued, as the case may be, on behalf of the Society ouly, and shall require to bave the judgment enforced against the property of the Society,
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