39 & 40 Vict. Cap. 45, s. 10. 
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tliis Act; hut no society which takes such deposits 
shall make any payment of withdrawable capital 
while any claim due on account of any such de 
posit is unsatisfied. 
<(3.) Offences.—It shall he an offence under this Act if any 
registered society— 
(a.) Fails to give any notice, send any return or docu 
ment, or do or allow to he done any act or thing 
which the society is hy this Act required to give, 
send, do, or allow to he done: 
(b.) Wilfully neglects or refuses to do any act or to fur 
nish any information required for the purposes of 
this Act hy the chief or any other registrar or 
other person authorized under this Act, or does 
any act or thing forbidden hy this Act: 
(c.) Makes a return or wilfully furnishes information in 
any respect false or insufficient: 
(d.) Carries on the business of hanking having any with 
drawable share capital, or in carrying on such 
business does not make out and keep conspicuously 
hung up such statement as is hereinbefore re 
quired, or makes any payment of withdrawable 
capital contrary to the provision hereinbefore 
contained. 
(4.) Offences by societies to be also offences by officers, &c.— 
Every offence by a society under this Act shall be deemed 
to have been also committed by every officer of the same 
bound by the rules thereof to fulfil the duty whereof such 
offence is a breach, or if there be no such officer, then by 
every member of the committee of the same, unless such 
member be proved to have been ignorant of or to have 
•attempted to prevent the commission of such offence; and 
every act or default under this Act constituting an offence, 
if continued, shall constitute a new offence in every week 
during which the same continues. 
(5.) Returns to be in prescribed form.—Every return and 
■other document required for the purposes of this Act shall