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INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 58

Appointment of inspectors and calling of special meetings.

58.(1) Upon the application of one-tenth of the whole number of members of a
registered society or, in the case of a society with more than one thousand
members, of one hundred of those members, the registrar may, with the consent
of the Ministry

(a)appoint an inspector or inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs
of the society; or

(b)call a special meeting of the society.

(2) An application under this section shall be supported by such evidence for
the purpose of showing that the applicants have good reason for requiring the
investigation or meeting and are not actuated by malicious motives, and such
notice of the application shall be given to the society, as the registrar
shall direct.

(3) The registrar may, if he thinks fit, require the applicants to give
security for the costs of the proposed investigation or meeting before
appointing any inspector or calling the meeting.

(4) All expenses of and incidental or preliminary to any such investigation or
meeting shall be defrayed by the members applying for it, or out of the funds
of the society, or by the members or officers, or former members or officers,
of the society, in such proportions as the registrar shall direct.

(5) An inspector appointed under this section may require the production of
all or any of the books, accounts, securities and documents of the society and
may examine on oath its officers, members, agents and servants in relation to
its business, and may for that purpose administer oaths.

(6) The registrar may direct at what time and place a special meeting under
this section is to be held, and what matters are to be discussed and
determined at the meeting; and the meeting shall have all the powers of a
meeting called according to the rules of the society, and shall have power to
appoint its own chairman notwithstanding any rule of the society to the
contrary.

Amalgamation of societies.



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