Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Cost of enquiry and. inspection.—(1) When an inquiry is held under sec tion 60(2) or an inspection is made under section 61(2), the Registrar may. after giving the parties an opportunity of being heard, apportion the cost or such part of the cost as he may deem fit. between 'he society, the members thereof o] 1he affiliating society or (he creditor or creditors applying for such inspection or inquiry, as the 'ase may be, and the officers, former officers, members and past member; of the society. (2) No expenditure from (he fund of a registered society shall be incurred for (be purpose of defraying any cost m support of any appeal preferred by any person other than the society itself against an order under sub-section (1). (3) Any person authorised by the Registrar under sections 60 and 61 shall have all the powers of the Registrar when acting under these sections. Recovery of costs.- ■ (4) Any sum awarded by way of cost under this section shall be recoverable through a Co-operative demand certificate. CHAPTER X Settlement of Dispute's 63 Reference «>f dispute.—Any dispute touching the business of a registered society, other than a dispute icgardins disciplinary action taken by a society against :m employee of the society, or of the liquidator of a society shall be referred to the Registrar for decision if the parties thereto are among the following (a) the society, ils past or present controlling or managing body, any past or present officer, agent or employee or the liquidator of the society : oi (b) member, past member or persons claiming through a member, pas! member or deceased member of the society : or (c) a surety of a member, a past member or deceased member of a society ; or (d) any other registered society or the liquidator of such society.