THE PURE LIFE SOCIETY (SHUDDHA SAMAJAM) INCORPORATION ACT 1957 (REVISED - 2023)

The Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam) Incorporation LAWS OF MALAYSIA Act 844 THE PURE LIFE SOCIETY (SHUDDHA SAMAJAM) INCORPORATION ACT 1957 (Revised—2023) REVISED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF LAW REVISION, MALAYSIA UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE REVISION OF LAWS ACT 1968 2023 1 2 Act 844 Laws of Malaysia THE PURE LIFE SOCIETY (SHUDDHA SAMAJAM) INCORPORATION ACT 1957 Revised up to … … … … 24 April 2023 Date of publication in the Gazette of this revised edition … … 8 May 2023 Date appointed for coming into operation of this revised edition pursuant to paragraph 6(1)(xxiii) of the Revision of Laws Act 1968 [Act 1] … … … 12 May 2023 … First enacted in 1957 as Ordinance No. 15 of 1957 The Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam) Incorporation LAWS OF MALAYSIA Act 844 THE PURE LIFE SOCIETY (SHUDDHA SAMAJAM) INCORPORATION ACT 1957 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Section 1. Short title 2. Interpretation 3. Incorporation 4. Patron 5. President 6. Membership of the Corporation 7. Rights on incorporation 8. Office 9. Objects and purposes 10. Management 11. Officers of the Corporation 12. Proceedings of the Committee 13. Accounts, etc. 14. Annual general meeting 15. Extraordinary general meeting 16. General meetings 17. Place of meetings 18. Voting 19. Quorum 20. Minutes of meetings 3 4 Laws of Malaysia Section 21. Where register, etc., to be kept 22. Common seal 23. Associate Members 25. Restriction on dealings in property 24. 26. 27. Vesting of property Further restrictions Rules First Schedule Second Schedule Act 844 The Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam) Incorporation 5 LAWS OF MALAYSIA Act 844 THE PURE LIFE SOCIETY (SHUDDHA SAMAJAM) INCORPORATION ACT 1957 An Act to incorporate the Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam). [1 July 1957] Short title 1. This Act may be cited as The Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam) Incorporation Act 1957. Interpretation 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— “associate member” means a person permitted to participate in the activities of the Corporation under section 23; “committee” means the committee of management appointed under section 10; “Corporation” means The Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam) as incorporated under section 3; “dedicated person” means a person belonging to the religious order founded by Yogi Shuddhananda Bharati of India or such other order as may be approved by the President after consultation with the members of the committee; “member” means a person whose name is recorded in the register under subsection 6(7); 6 Laws of Malaysia Act 844 “member of the committee” means a member of the committee elected under section 10 other than the President; “President” means the President of the Corporation appointed under section 5; “register” means the register of members maintained under subsection 6(7); “Society” means the Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam) [G.N. No. 1776/1950] registered as an exempted society under Societies Act 1966 [Act 832]. Incorporation 3. The body of persons whose names are recorded in the register shall be a body corporate and shall have perpetual succession under the name of “The Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam)”. Patron 4. The spiritual head of the religious order founded by Yogi Shuddhananda Bharati of India shall be the patron of the Corporation. President 5. (1) The President of the Corporation shall hold office for the duration of his life but he may retire from his office at any time. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the High Court may on an application by the committee declare the President to be incapable of performing the functions of his office in which event the President shall be deemed to have retired from the office of President. (3) The President is entitled to nominate any member in writing to succeed him as the President consequent to his death or retirement. The Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam) Incorporation 7 (4) In the event that any President fails to nominate his successor under subsection (3), the President shall be a member elected by the Corporation in a general meeting. Membership of the Corporation 6. (1) The President and the members of the committee shall be members of the Corporation. (2) Subject to this Act, any person irrespective of race or creed who subscribes to the Corporation’s objects and purposes and who aspires to lead a life of purity shall on application in writing in the form set out in the First Schedule be eligible for election as a member of the Corporation. (3) A person shall not be eligible for membership of the Corporation unless at the time of his application for membership he has attained the age of twenty-one years. (4) The committee may reject any application for membership made under subsection (2). (5) An applicant whose application has been rejected is not entitled to apply again for membership of the Corporation until after the expiration of six months from the date of rejection. (6) The President with the consent of the members of the committee may admit a dedicated person as a member. (7) The committee shall cause to be maintained a register of members of the Corporation and to be recorded in it the name, address and occupation of— (a) the persons specified in subsection (1); (b) every person accepted as a member of the Corporation on or after 1 October 1957; and (c) every person elected or admitted as a member of the Corporation under subsection (2) or (6). 8 Laws of Malaysia Act 844 (8) For the purpose of any person specified in paragraph (c), the date of election or admission as a member of the Corporation shall be recorded in the register. Rights on incorporation 7. (1) The Corporation shall have and may use a common seal which may be broken, changed, altered and made anew as the Corporation thinks fit. (2) The Corporation may sue and be sued in its name. (3) The Corporation may, upon such terms as it thinks fit— (a) acquire, purchase, lease, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property of every description; and (b) sell, exchange, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of and deal with any movable and immovable property vested in the Corporation. Office 8. The Corporation shall have an office at the 6th Mile, Puchong Road, Petaling, Kuala Lumpur, or at any other place as it may decide. Objects and purposes 9. The objects and general purposes of the Corporation shall be— (a) to promote the study and practice of Dharma (righteousness) and Yoga (mystical communion) in their purest form as propounded by the great teachers of the world and the study of comparative theology and philosophy in their widest form; (b) to promote the study of the arts, sciences and industries; The Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam) Incorporation 9 (c) to establish or maintain or to assist in the establishment or maintenance of, spiritual and educational institutions, orphanages, workshops, laboratories, dispensaries, houses for the infirm, the invalid and the afflicted, and institutions of a like nature; (d) subject to any written law, to print and publish and to sell or distribute gratuitously or otherwise, journals, periodicals, books or leaflets which the Corporation may consider desirable; (e) to assist at and, subject to any written law, to conduct or officiate marriage ceremonies, funerals or other ceremonial occasions; (f) to train workers in all branches of knowledge for the purpose of carrying on educational and social work; and (g) subject to this Act and any other written law, to set up an endowment fund or funds for the purposes of the Corporation. Management 10. (1) The affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by a committee of management consisting of the President and of not less than ten other members. (2) The members of the committee shall be elected in the manner provided in this Act. (3) The members of the committee shall retire from office at the annual general meeting of the Corporation held next after their becoming members of the committee; and such member shall be eligible for re-election at the meeting at which he shall retire. (4) Every new committee shall take over from the outgoing committee within one month of the date of its appointment. 10 Laws of Malaysia Act 844 (5) If any member of the committee desires to retire from acting as such, he shall give the Corporation one month’s notice in writing of his intention to do so and his retirement shall take effect from the date of the expiration of such notice or its earlier acceptance by the committee. (6) If for any cause any vacancies shall occur in the committee, such vacancies may be filled by members elected by the committee and any member so elected shall, unless otherwise arranged at the time of his election, hold office for the remainder of the period during which the member of the committee in whose place he shall be elected would have held office had such vacancy not occurred. (7) If the number of vacancies existing at any one time exceeds five in number, an extraordinary general meeting shall be convened for the purpose of filling the vacancies. (8) Subject to subsection (9), if in the opinion of the committee any member of the committee misconducts himself or his affairs or otherwise is or becomes unfit to continue as a member of the committee, he may, by the vote of not less than two-thirds of the members present at a meeting of the committee, be expelled from the committee. (9) No resolution to expel a member of the committee shall be considered unless— (a) prior notice of the intended resolution has been given to the committee, including the member of the committee whom it is proposed to expel; and (b) such member of the committee has been given an opportunity to explain his conduct or the matters giving rise to the resolution. Officers of the Corporation 11. (1) The committee shall appoint the following persons as the officers of the Corporation: (a) a vice-President, an Honorary Secretary and an Honorary Treasurer from their number in such manner as they think fit; and The Pure Life Society (Shuddha Samajam) Incorporation 11 (b) an auditor or auditors from outside the committee. (2) If any officer of the Corporation, during his term of office, is absent from Peninsular Malaysia or be incapacitated from officiating as such officer, the committee may appoint a substitute to act in his place and the person so appointed shall hold office only during the absence or incapacity of the officer in whose place he is appointed. Proceedings of the committee 12. The committee shall meet at least once every three months to discuss the management and affairs of the Corporation. Accounts, etc. 13. (1) The Honorary Treasurer shall cause proper books of account to be kept and to be entered in the books full particulars of all assets and liabilities and of all receipts and disbursements on account of the Corporation and of all other matters and things relative to the assets, liabilities, receipts and disbursements and necessary to explain such entries. (2) The Honorary Treasurer shall, not later than the last day of September in each year, cause to be prepared— (a) a statement in the form of a balance sheet containing particulars of all assets and liabilities of the Corporation; and (b) an account of the receipts and disbursements during the preceding year ending 31 December. (3) The accounts kept by the Honorary Treasurer and the annual statement prepared by him in accordance with subsection (2) shall be audited by the auditor or auditors as and when requested by the committee, and the auditor or auditors shall certify in writing the result of his or their audit. 12 Laws of Malaysia Act 844 (4) When and as soon as the annual statement had been audited under subsection (3), a copy of the audited annual statement shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the office of the Corporation for at lea