(1) The committee or any officer of the registered society authorized in this behalf by its by-laws may bring or defend or cause to be brought or defended any action or other legal proceeding touching or concerning any property, right or claim of the registered society and may sue or be sued in respect of any such property, right or claim.
(2) Any action or other legal proceeding shall not abate or be discontinued by the death, resignation or removal from office of any officer of the registered society.
21. (1) If a judgment is passed against any officer referred to in sub-section (1) of section 20, such judgment shall not be enforced against the property, movable or immovable, or against the body, of such officer, but against the property of the registered society.
(2) The application for execution shall set forth the judgment, the fact of the party against whom it shall have been passed having sued or having been sued, as the case may be, on behalf of the registered society only, and shall require to have the judgment enforced against the property of the registered society.
22. Where any by-law of a registered society provides Suit to recover for the imposition of any pecuniary penalty for any breach penalty, thereof, such penalty, when accrued, may be recovered by suit filed in the court having jurisdiction where the defendant resides or the registered office of the registered society is situate.