Lawgist17Registration of societies formed before Act
Any company or society established for a literary, scientific, or charitable purpose, and registered under 1Act 43 of 1850, or any such society established and constituted previously to the passing of this Act but not registered under the said 1Act 43 of 1850, may at any time hereafter be registered as a society under this Act; subject to the proviso that no such company or society shall be registered under this Act unless an assent to its being so registered has been given by three-fifths of the members present personally, or by proxy, at some general meeting convened for that purpose by the governing body.
In the case of a company or society registered under 1Act 43 of 1850, the directors shall be deemed to be such governing body.
In the case of a society not so registered, if no such body shall have been constituted on the establishment of the society, it shall be competent for the members thereof, upon due notice, to create for itself a governing body to act for the society thenceforth.
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1. Rep. by the Indian Companies Act, 1866 (10 of 1866), s. 719, see now the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956).
- 1 Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration
- 2 Memorandum of association
- 3 Registration and fees
- 4 Annual list of managing body to be filed
- 5 Property of society how vested
- 6 Suits by and against societies
- 7 Suits not to abate
- 8 Enforcement of judgment against society
- 9 Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law
- 10 Members liable to be sued as strangers
- 11 Members guilty of offences punishable as strangers
- 12 Societies enabled to alter, extend or abridge their purposes
- 13 Provision for dissolution of societies and adjustment of their affairs
- 14 Upon a dissolution no member to receive profit. Proviso for Joint-stock Companies
- 15 Who is a Member
- 16 Governing body defined
- 17 Registration of societies formed before Act
- 18 Such societies to file memorandum, etc., with Registrar of Joint-stock Companies
- 19 Inspection of documents, Certified copies
- 20 To what societies the Act shall apply
