16. Section 67 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and following section substituted therefor:"
| 67. It shall be lawful for the Registrar, after the accounts of a registered society have been audited as provided in section 44 or after an inquiry under section 46 or an inspection of books and investigation of affairs of a registered society has been held under section 47, to require any person, being a person who is or has at any time been entrusted with or being a person having or at any time having had the dominion of, any money, or any goods or property, in his capacity as an officer or a member or a servant of the society, to pay over or produce such amount of money or balance thereof or pay the value of such goods or property which is shown in the books of accounts or statements kept or signed by such persons as held by or due from him as such officer, member or servant; and if such person upon being so required, fails to pay over or produce such amount of money or balance thereof forthwith or the value of such goods or property or to duly account therefor, he shall be guilty of the offence of criminal breach of trust and shall on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding ten years and shall also be liable to a fine, notwithstanding that such punishment exceeds the ordinary jurisdiction of a Magistrate. ". |
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