Application for, and renewal of, certificate of registration

(1) The secretary of any club who desires a certificate shall lodge with the registrar for the district in which the club is situate an application signed by the Chairperson and secretary of the club stating the name and objects of the club and the address of the premises occupied by the club, and shall publish notice of such application once in a daily newspaper circulating in the district. (2) Every such application shall be accompanied by two copies of the rules of the club and by a list containing, (a) the names and addresses of the officials and committee of management or governing body; and (b) the names of all the members of the club. (3) The secretary of any club who desires a renewal of a certificate shall, at a date not later than twenty-one days prior to its expiry, make application to the registrar for such renewal in the same manner and subject to the same incidents and publication as in the case of an original application for registration, except that the application for renewal shall not be accompanied by two copies of the rules of the club, but by two 9 copies of any amendment to such rules made since the original certificate or the last renewal thereof was obtained. (4) The registrar shall, within three days of receipt of the application, give notice of such application to the Chief Officer of Police of the district mentioned in subsection (1)of this section who shall with all convenient dispatch, (a) verify the particulars contained in the (b) make inquiries to enable him to report to the magistrate to whom the application is made upon the matters to be considered at the hearing of the application for registration or renewal; and (c) prepare and lodge with the registrar and serve on the secretary of the club such report on the application as he may think fit, and he shall be entitled to object to the grant or renewal of the certificate either generally or on any of the grounds set forth in section 6 of this Act. (5) The report shall be deemed to be prima facie evidence of all matters stated therein and shall be taken into consideration by the court when deciding on the application. (6) It shall be competent for any person to lodge objection to the grant or renewal of a certificate on any of the grounds specified in section 6 of this Act. (7) Every such objection shall be lodged by the objector with the registrar within ten days after the publication of the notice of application, and on the same day a copy of the objection shall be sent by the objector to the secretary of the club who is applying for the grant or renewal of the certificate. 10 (8) The court shall, as soon as may be, hear parties upon the application and objection and may order any inquiry it thinks fit, and thereafter shall grant or refuse the application for the grant or renewal of the certificate. (9) Upon the grant of a certificate, the court shall cause the entries required by this Act to be made in the register, and thereupon the registrar shall issue a certificate of registration to the applicant in, or as nearly as may be in, the Form. (10) Every certificate issued under this Act shall expire on 31st December in the year in which it is granted subject, however, to its renewal in accordance with this Act. (11) The court may order costs and expenses to be paid by the unsuccessful party, where objection has been taken to the granting or renewal of a certificate, as in any case of summary jurisdiction proceeding where an order is made for payment of money not being in the nature of a penalty for an offence. (12) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act as to the duration of a certificate, where application for a renewal has been made, the current certificate shall remain in force pending the final decision of the court, for a period not exceeding three months. (13) A club failing to make application for the renewal of a certificate, at or previous to the time when it is required by this Act to be made, shall not be granted the renewal unless the court is satisfied that the failure was due to inadvertence.