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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  delivered ­
  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  registrar ­
  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  convictions ­
  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).