PART XI—GENERAL.
77. Remuneration of officers.
(1) No officer or member of a registered society shall receive any
remuneration, salary, commission or other payment from the society for
services rendered to the society unless the society has after consultation with
the registrar by resolution passed at a general meeting of the society,
approved the payment of that remuneration, salary, commission or other
payment.
(2) No officer or member of a registered society shall receive any
remuneration, salary, commission or other payment from any person other
than the society in respect of any business or transaction entered into by the
society; but that in special circumstances the society may, after consultation
with the registrar, by a resolution passed at a general meeting of the society,
consent to such remuneration, salary, commission or other payment being
made.
(3) Any officer or member of a registered society who receives any
remuneration, salary, commission or other payment in contravention of
subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine
not exceeding twenty thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a period not
exceeding six months or to both and shall, if convicted for contravening
subsection (1), be ordered to repay the remuneration, salary, commission or
other payment received from the society; and default in that payment shall
be treated in the same manner as default in paying a fine imposed by a
competent court.
(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), where in the opinion of
the registrar a registered society has improperly paid or consented to the
payment to an officer or member of any remuneration, salary, commission
or other payment, the registrar may report the matter to the board.
(5) If the board is of the opinion that the remuneration, salary,
commission or other payment has been improperly paid, or payment has been
improperly consented to, it may, by order published in the Gazette, declare
that the society shall not, for a period to be stated in the order, pay or consent
to the payment to an officer or member of the society of any such
remuneration, salary, commission or other payment except with the approval
of the registrar.