ACT NO. 21 OF 1860 [21st May, 1860.]
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.
18. Such societies to
file memorandum, etc., with Registrar of Joint-stock Companies.--In order to any such society as is
mentioned in the last preceding section obtaining registry under
this Act, it shall be sufficient that the governing body file with the Registrar of Joint-stock Companies 1*a memorandum
showing the name of the society, the objects of the society, and the
names, addresses and
occupations of the governing body, together with a copy of the
rules and regulations of the society certified as provided in section 2, and a copy of the report of the proceedings of
the general meeting at which the registration was resolved on.
19. Inspection of documents.
Certified copies.--Any person may inspect all documents filed with the Registrar
under this Act on payment of a fee of one rupee for each inspection; and any person
may
require a copy or extract of any document or any part of any document, to be certified by the Registrar, on payment of two
annas for every hundred words of such copy or extract; and such certified copy
shall be prima facie evidence of the matters there in contained in all legal proceedings whatever.
20. To what societies Act applies.--The following societies may be registered under this Act:-
Charitable
societies, the military orphan funds or societies established at the several
presidencies of India, societies established for the promotion of science,
literature, or the fine arts, for instruction, the
diffusion of useful knowledge, 2* [the diffusion of
political education] the foundation or maintenance of libraries or
reading-rooms for general use among the members or open to
the public, or public museums and galleries of paintings and other
work of art, collections of natural history,
mechanical and philosophical inventions, instruments, or designs.
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Notes:
1. The words and figures "under Act 19 of
1857", rep. by Act 16 of
1874, s.1 Sch., Pt. I, see now
the Companies Act, 1956, (1 of
1956).
2. Ins. by Act 22 of 1927,s.2.