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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).