Chandrawarnum Et Al. V. The Public Service Mutual Provident Association

 Present : Mr. Justice Wendt and Mr. Justice Middleton.

CHANDRAWARNUM et al. v. THE PUBLIC SERVICE
MUTUAL PROVIDENT ASSOCIATION, COLOMBO.

D. C, Colombo, 22,113.

Public Service Mutual Provident Association-Failure to pay monthly contributions-Ipso facto ceasing to be a member-Subsequent payment, effect of-Rules of the Association-Resolution authorizing payment-Estoppel-Ultra vires-Evidence Act, s. 115.

    Rule 16 of the rules of the Public Service Mutual Provident Association enacts as follows:-

    " Instalments due on account of loans and advances made under rules 12 and 14, and the interest due thereon as well as the calls falling due . under rule 10, shall be deducted from the salaries of members on pay day by the Pay Clerk; but the responsibility of seeing that the amounts due on these accounts, as well as the monthly contributions, are duly deducted and remitted to the Treasurer shall nevertheless rest on the members themselves. Should any amount due by a member as monthly contribution or as instalment or interest on account of such loans or advances not be remitted to the Treasu

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