Charitable Loan Societies (Ireland) Act, 1843

Societies rot certified under this Act, &c. and their members and officers, prohibited from acting, under a penalty of 20l.

53. If any person or persons, not being a society the rules whereof shall have been duly certified pursuant to the provisions of the said recited Acts or this Act, or any society established under the said Acts or this Act from which the certificate shall have been withdrawn by the said loan fund board in exercise of the powers hereby vested in them in that behalf, shall, under the false pretence of being a society so established and authorized, raise money by debentures, or issue any loan, or impose any fine, or use any other of the advantages and privileges of a loan society duly established as aforesaid, . . . then and in every such case every such person or member of such society, and every officer, clerk, and agent thereof, and every other person who shall aid or assist therein, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, to be recovered as herein-after mentioned.