Section 48

Any person who, having been convicted of any offence against this Act acts as an office-bearer of any society without the permission in writing of the Registrar shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to both.

49 If the registration of any society has been cancelled under paragraph (b) or sub-paragraphs (i) to (iv) of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) of section 13, any office-bearer of such society at the time of such cancellation who after that time becomes an office-bearer of any other society without the permission in writing of the Registrar shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or to both.