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INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 73

Punishment of fraud or misappropriation.

73.(1) Subject to subsection (2), any person who obtains possession by false
representation or imposition of any property of a registered society, or
having any such property in his possession withholds or misapplies it or
wilfully applies any part of it to purposes which are not authorised by the
rules of the society or which are not in accordance with this Act, shall be
guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
#20 with costs or expenses and to be ordered to deliver up that property or to
repay all moneys improperly applied and, in default of such delivery or
repayment or of the payment of any such fine, to be imprisoned for a term not
exceeding three months; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent any such
person from being proceeded against by way of indictment for any offence if he
has not previously been convicted in respect of the same matters under this
subsection.

(2) If on proceedings under subsection (1) it is not proved that the person
charged acted with any fraudulent intent, he may be ordered to deliver up any
property belonging to the society or to repay any money improperly applied,
with costs or expenses, but shall not be liable to conviction under that
subsection.


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