Section 62: Offences by societies to be also offences by officers, etc.

Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 · 1965 c.12

This provision is repealed
It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

REPEALED on 2014-08-01 by Community Benefit Societies Act 2014.

The text below is from the dated revised snapshot immediately preceding this status change. It is historical and is not current law. View the historical source.

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Every offence committed by a registered society under this Act shall be deemed to have been also committed by every officer of that society bound by the society’s rules to fulfil the duty of which that offence is a breach or, if there is no such officer, by every member of the society’s committee who is not proved to have been ignorant of, or to have attempted to prevent, the commission of that offence.

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