LawgistThe Societies Registration Act
9Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law
Whenever by any bye-law duly made in accordance with the rules and regulations of the society, or, if the rules do not provide for the making of bye-laws, by any bye-law made at a general meeting of the members of the society convened for the purpose (for the making of which the concurrent votes of three-fifths of the members present at such meeting shall be necessary), any pecuniary penalty is imposed for the breach of any rule or bye-law of the society, such penalty, when accrued, may be recovered in any Court having jurisdiction where the defendant shall reside, or the society shall be situate, as the governing body thereof shall deem expedient.
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All sections
- 1 Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration
- 2 Memorandum of association
- 3 Registration and fees
- 4 Annual list of managing body to be filed
- 5 Property of society how vested
- 6 Suits by and against societies
- 7 Suits not to abate
- 8 Enforcement of judgment against society
- 9 Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law
- 10 Members liable to be sued as strangers
- 11 Members guilty of offences punishable as strangers
- 12 Societies enabled to alter, extend or abridge their purposes
- 13 Provision for dissolution of societies and adjustment of their affairs
- 14 Upon a dissolution no member to receive profit. Proviso for Joint-stock Companies
- 15 Who is a Member
- 16 Governing body defined
- 17 Registration of societies formed before Act
- 18 Such societies to file memorandum, etc., with Registrar of Joint-stock Companies
- 19 Inspection of documents, Certified copies
- 20 To what societies the Act shall apply
