Section 25

Subject to subsection (2) and on payment of the fee prescribed in the First Schedule, documents filed with the Registrar or Assistant Registrar in pursuance to any provision of this Act or any regulations made thereunder may be inspected by any person and any copy of any certificate, order, notice or any other document issued by the Registrar or Assistant Registrar in pursuance to any provision of this Act or any regulations made thereunder may be obtained by any person from the Registrar or Assistant Registrar:

Provided that the person seeking the inspection or copy shall state the purpose for which he requires it, and the Registrar shall be satisfied that such purpose is a lawful purpose, and that the inspection or copy is not being sought by or on behalf of an unlawful society.

No person, other than a person whom the Registrar is satisfied is a member of a society, shall inspect or obtain from the Registrar or Assistant

Registrar the accounts of such society or a copy thereof.

A copy of or extract from any document received at the office of the Registrar or Assistant Registrar certified to be a true copy or extract under the hand and seal of the Registrar or Assistant Registrar shall, in any proceedings be admissible in evidence and be of equal validity with the original document.

Consequences of order under section 31, refusal to register a society under section 11 and cancellation of registration.