Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965

48 Production of documents and provision of information for certain purposes

(1) The appropriate registrar may at any time, by notice in writing served on a registered society or on any person who is or has been an officer of such a society, require that society or person to produce to that registrar such books, accounts and other documents relating to the business of the society, and to furnish to him such other information relating to that business, as that registrar considers necessary for the exercise of any of the powers which he has by virtue of section 16(1)(c)(ii), 16(4) or 56 of this Act; and any such notice may contain a requirement that any information to be furnished in accordance with the notice shall be verified by a statutory declaration.

(2) Any society or other person failing to comply with the requirements of a notice under the foregoing subsection shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.

(3) The appropriate registrar may, if he considers it just, direct that all or any of the expenses incurred by him in exercising his powers under subsection (1) of this section in relation to any society shall, either wholly or to such extent as he may determine, be defrayed out of the funds of the society or by the officers or former officers thereof or any of them; and any sum which any society or other person is required by such a direction to pay shall be a debt due to the appropriate registrar from that society or person.