Section 33

The Registrar or an Assistant Registrar may summon before him any person whom he has reason to believe is able to give any information as to the existence of operations of any unlawful society or of any club, company, partnership or association suspected of being an unlawful society or as to the operations of a registered society.

Such person shall attend at the time and place specified in the summons and produce all articles in his custody, possession or power relating to such society, club, company, partnership or association and answer truthfully all questions which the Registrar or an Assistant Registrar may put to him.

Any person who fails to attend on such a summons or who fails to answer truthfully is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment to a term not exceeding one year or both.

The Registrar and every Assistant Registrar may administer an oath to, and examine on oath, any person summoned before him under the provisions of this Act.

If any person summoned by the Registrar or an Assistant

Registrar under this section without lawful excuse fails to comply with any obligation imposed upon him by subsections (1), (2) or (3) or gives information which the Registrar or Assistant Registrar, as the case may be, believes to be false, the Registrar or Assistant Registrar may, if he considers it advisable to provide for the future identification of such person, order that a photograph and impressions of fingerprints of that person be taken at such time and in such place and manner as he may think fit and, if that person without lawful excuse fails to comply with or obstructs the execution of any such order, he is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

No statement made by any person summoned before the

Registrar or an Assistant Registrar under this section shall subject him to any arrest or criminal prosecution, or be proved against him in any criminal proceedings, except a prosecution for failing to answer truthfully under this section.

Societies 34

For the purposes of this section, the Registrar and the Assistant

Registrar shall have the same power of investigation of a police officer under

Chapter XIII of the Criminal Procedure Code (Chapter 7).

Prosecutions.