Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where an inquiry is held under section 81, or an inspection is made under section 82, the Registrar may apportion the costs, or such part of the costs, as he may think just, between the society, the member or creditors demanding the inquiry or inspection, the officers or former officers and the members or past members or the estates of the deceased members of the society; Provided that--- (a) no order of apportionment of the costs shall be made under this section, unless the society or persons or the legal representative of the deceased person liable to pay the costs there under, has or have been heard, or has or have had a reasonable opportunity of being heard; (b) the Registrar shall state in writing the grounds on which the costs are apportioned. (2) No expenditure from the funds of a society shall be incurred for the purpose of defraying any costs in support of any appeal preferred by any person other than the society against an order made under the foregoing sub-section.