Full text: The law of friendly societies, and industrial and provident societies, with the acts, observations thereon, forms of rules etc., reports of leading cases at length, and a copious index

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38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, ss. 32, 33. 
32. Penalties.—With, respect to penalties under this Act 
the following provisions shall have effect :— 
(1.) Penalty for falsification.—If any person wilfully 
makes, orders, or allows to he made any entry, erasure in, 
or omission from any balance sheet of a registered society 
[or branch], or any contribution or collecting book, or any 
return or document required to be sent, produced, or de 
livered for the purposes of this Act, with intent to falsify 
the same, or to evade any of the provisions of this Act, he 
is liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, recover- 
-able at the suit of the chief or any assistant registrar or 
of any person aggrieved. 
(2.) Penalties for ordinary offences.—Every society [or 
branch] officer or member of a society [or branch] or other 
person guilty of an offence under this Act for which no 
penalty is expressly provided herein is liable to a penalty 
of not less than one pound and not more than five pounds, 
recoverable at the suit of the chief or any assistant regis 
trar or of any person aggrieved. 
(3.) Recovery of penalties.—All penalties imposed by this 
Act, or to be imposed by any regulations under the same, 
or by the rules of a registered society [or branch], are 
recoverable in a court of summary jurisdiction (a). 
33. Summary procedure and appeals.—With respect to 
summary procedure and appeals from orders or convic 
tions thereon made, the following provisions shall have 
•effect:— 
(1.) In England and Ireland respectively all offences and 
penalties under this Act may be prosecuted and recovered 
in the manner directed by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, 
as respects a prosecution against a society [or branch] or its 
officers in the place where the registered office of the 
society is [or where the branch is established], or where the 
(a) This section is new. The penalties may he mitigated 
under the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. 
•c. 49, g. 4).
	        
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