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Powers of Registrar to summon witnesses. Consent to prosecution. Societies.
20. (1) The Registrar or an assistant registrar may summon before him any person whom 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 exempted society.
(2) The person so 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 administer 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 shall without lawful excuse fail to comply with any obligation imposed upon him by subsection (2) or shall give information which the Registrar or assistant registrar believes to be false, the Registrar or assistant registrar may, if he considers it advisable to provide for the future identification of such person, order that a photograph and impressions of finger-prints of such person be taken at such time and in such place and manner as the Registrar or assistant registrar may think fit.
(5) Any person who refuses to comply with such order or who obstructs compliance with such order may be arrested and detained in custody and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars.
(6) No statement made by a person summoned before the Registrar or an assistant registrar under the provisions of this section shall subject him to any arrest or criminal prosecution, or be proved against him in any criminal proceeding, except a prosecution for failing to answer truthfully under this section.
21. Except in the case of persons charged under the provisions of section 15 and of persons arrested under the provisions of section 19 and subsection (5) of section 20, no
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CAP. 151]
Powers of Registrar to
summon witnesses.
Consent to prosecution.
Societies.
20. (1) The Registrar or an assistant registrar may summon before him any person whom 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 exempted society.
(2) The person so summoned shall attend at the hour and place in the summons specified, and produce all docu- ments 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 administer oaths to and examine on oath any person sum- moned before him under this section.
(4) If any person summoned by the Registrar or an assistant registrar under this section shall without lawful excuse fail to comply with any obligation imposed upon him by subsection (2) or shall give information which the Registrar or assistant registrar believes to be false, the Registrar or assistant registrar may, if he considers it advisable to provide for the future identification of such person, order that a photograph and impressions of finger- prints of such person be taken at such time and in such place and manner as the Registrar or assistant registrar may think fit.
(5) Any person who refuses to comply with such order or who obstructs compliance with such order may be arrested and detained in custody and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars.
(6) No statement made by a person summoned before the Registrar or an assistant registrar under the provisions of this section shall subject him to any arrest or criminal prosecution, or be proved against him in any criminal pro- ceeding, except a prosecution for failing to answer truthfully under this section.
21. Except in the case of persons charged under the provisions of section 15 and of persons arrested under the provisions of section 19 and subsection (5) of section 20, no
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