(1) Every member shall be entitled to inspect, free of cost, at the society’s office during office hours, or at any time fixed for the purpose by the society, the bye-laws, the last three years audited annual financial statements, audit report and audit rectification report and those portions of the minutes of general meetings and Board meetings and books and records relevant to his transactions with the society.
(2) 49[The Chief Executive or any one of the office bearer] shall furnish to a member, on request in writing and on payment of such fees as may be specified in the bye-laws, a copy of any of the documents mentioned in the foregoing sub-section within one month from the date of payment of such fees.
50[(3) In the event of failure on the part of the Chief Executive or the office bearer to provide the information under sub-section (2), the aggrieved member may file an appeal before the Assistant Registrar. The Assistant Registrar after hearing both the parties shall pass an order within 30 days from the date of filling such appeal.
(4) Any member who, does not receive any order within the time specified in sub- section
(3) or is aggrieved by an order of the Assistant Registrar, may within a period of sixty days from the date of request under sub-section (2) or within a period of thirty days from the date of order, prefer a second appeal to the Deputy Registrar.
(5) Where the Deputy Registrar at the time of deciding such appeal is of the opinion that the Chief Executive or office bearer, as the case may be has, without any reasonable cause, refused to receive an application for information or has not furnished information within the time specified under sub- section (2) or malafidely denied the request for information or knowingly given incorrect, incomplete or misleading information or destroyed information which was the subject of the request or obstructed in any manner in furnishing the information, shall impose on the Chief Executive or the office bearer, as the case may be, a -20- penalty of rupees two hundred and fifty for each day of delay from the date of expiry of a period of 30 days from the date of application seeking information till the information is provided or such amount of penalty as may be decided by the Deputy Registrar in case of destruction of information, so however the total amount of such penalty shall not exceed rupees twenty-five thousand.]