(1) Subject to subsection (2), documents filed with the Registrar in pursuance to any provision of this Act or any regulations made thereunder and any copy of any certificate, order, notice or any other document issued by the Registrar under this Act may, on payment of the prescribed fee :-

(a) be inspected by any person; or

(b) be obtained by any person from the Registrar:

Provided that the person seeking the inspection or copy states the purpose for which he requires the same, and the Registrar is satisfied that such purpose is a lawful purpose, and that the inspection or copy is not being sought by or on behalf of an unlawful society.

(2) No person, other than a person whom the Registrar is satisfied to be a member of a registered youth society, may inspect or obtain from the Registrar the accounts of such youth society or a copy thereof.

(3) A copy of or an extract from any document received at the office of the Registrar certified to be true copy or extract under the hand and seal of the Registrar shall, in any proceedings be admissible in evidence without any further proof.

(1) No registered youth society shall :-

(a) change its name or place of business; or

(b) amend its rules,

without the prior approval of the Registrar, and an application for any such change, or amendment of its rules shall be made to the Registrar within sixty days from the date of the decision to make the change or the amendment.

(2) If a registered youth society fails to comply with this section, the registered youth society and every office-bearer of such youth society shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit.

(3) For the purpose of this section :-

(a) the expression “amend” and its cognate expression shall include a new rule and a resolution rescinding a rule; and

(b) the expression “rules” includes the aims and objects for which a youth society is formed, or which it may pursue, or which its funds may be applied, the qualifications for membership and for the holding of any office, the method of appointment or election to any office, the rules by which the youth society is to be governed and the method and manner by and in which any of the above matters may be amended.