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LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS ACT 1854 - SECT 24

Institution may make byelaws.

24. In any institution the governing body, if not otherwise legally empowered
to do so, may, at any meeting specially convened according to its regulations,
make any byelaw for the better governance of the institution, its members or
officers, and for the furtherance of its purpose and object, and may impose a
reasonable pecuniary penalty for the breach thereof, which penalty, when
accrued, may be recovered in any local court of the district wherein the
defendant shall inhabit or the institution shall be situated, as the governing
body thereof shall deem expedient: Provided always, that no pecuniary penalty
imposed by any byelaw for the breach thereof shall be recoverable unless the
byelaw shall have been confirmed by the votes of three fifths of the members
present at a meeting specially convened for the purpose.

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