Malaysia legislation
Section 11
Section 11
(a)
change its name or place of business; or
(b)
amend its rules, without the prior approval of the Registrar, and an application for any such change, or amendment of its rules shall be made to the Registrar within sixty days from the date of the decision to make the change or the amendment.
(2)
If a registered society fails to comply with this section, the society and every office-bearer of the society commits an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand ringgit.
(3)
For the purpose of this section—
(a)
the expression “amend” and its cognate expression shall include a new rule and a resolution rescinding a rule;
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(b)
the expression “rules” includes the aims and objects for which a society is formed, or which it may pursue, or for which its funds, or any of them, may be applied, the qualifications for membership and for the holding of any office, the method of appointment or election to any office, the rules by which the society is to be governed and the method and manner by and in which any of the above matters may be amended.
Branch of a society