Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where in the course of an enquiry under section 35, it appears that any person who had taken part in the affairs or management of the society or any past or present President, Chairperson, Secretary, other office bearers, member of the governing body, officer or any employee of the society has misappropriated or retained or created liability for any money or property of the society, or has been guilty of misfeasance or breach of trust in relation to the society, the Registrar may, on a report received from the officer or on an application received from the governing body of the society or of his own motion, examine into the conduct of such person and after giving reasonable opportunity to the person concerned to submit his explanation, pass an order requiring him to repay or restore the money or property or any part thereof, as the case may be, with interest at such rate as the Registrar thinks fit or to contribute such sum to the assets of the society by way of compensation with regard to the misappropriation, retain, misfeasance or breach of trust as the Registrar thinks fit. (2) The order of the Registrar under sub-section (1) shall be final unless it is set aside by the Inspector General of Registration on an appeal filed before him within sixty days from the date of communication of the order: Provided that in case where no such appeal is filed on satisfying the reasonable cause, by condoning the delay, the Appellate Authority may have the power to extend the period of appeal not exceeding thirty days. (3) Any person aggrieved by an order of rejection of appeal by the Inspector General of Registration under sub-section (2) may file a revision before the Government within thirty days of the intimation of such rejection. (4) The Government may on its own motion, where there is no appeal filed under sub-section (2) or revision filed under sub-section (3), pass an appropriate order. (5) Any sum ordered under this section to be remitted to a society or recovered as a contribution to its assets may on a requisition being made in this behalf by the Registrar, be recovered by the Kerala Revenue Recovery Act, 1968 (15 of 1968) in the same manner as arrears of land revenue.