(1) The Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, appoint an officer not below the rank of Secretary, as the Registrar General of Societies, who shall exercise such powers and perform such duties and functions, as are conferred upon him by or under this Regulation.
(2) The Government may, by order, appoint––
(a) a Group ‘A’ officer of the Government not below the rank of Joint Secretary, as the Registrar of Societies; and
(b) other officers of the Government, not below the rank of Group ‘B’ officer, as Additional Registrar or Joint Registrar, to assist the Registrar in the discharge of his functions and empower them to exercise such powers and perform such duties and functions, as may be assigned to them, from time to time.
(3) The Government may further appoint District Registrars not below the rank of Group ‘B’ officer in the Government, to exercise such powers and perform such duties and functions, as may be assigned to them under this Regulation, in respect of the territorial jurisdiction of one or more districts.
(4) The Government may also appoint certain officers not below the rank of Group ‘B’ officer of the Government as Deputy District Registrars or Assistant District Registrars as per relevant service rules or terms of employment and empower them to perform such duties and functions, as may be assigned to them, from time to time.
(5) The officers appointed under this section shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions as may be assigned to them under the overall administrative control and superintendence of the Government.
Registrar General, other officers and their powers.
Officers of society 4 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [Part II— 4 Registrar General and other officers to be public servants.
Protection of action taken in good faith.
Aims, objects and composition of society.
Application for registration of society and society not to be registered with identical names.
4. Every officer exercising or authorised to exercise powers under this Regulation or the rules made thereunder shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of clause (28) of section 2 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and clause (c) of section 2 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
5. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Registrar General or any official subordinate to him or acting under his authority, in respect of anything done by him or purporting to have been done by him in good faith under this Regulation.
CHAPTER III AIMS AND OBJECTS OF SOCIETY
6. Any seven or more persons associated for––
(a) any literary, scientific or charitable purpose; or
(b) military orphan funds; or
(c) the promotion of science, literature, or the fine arts for instruction, the diffusion of useful knowledge, the diffusion of political education; or
(d) the foundation or maintenance of libraries or reading rooms for general use among the members or open to the public; or
(e) public museums and galleries of paintings and other works of art, collections of natural history, mechanical and philosophical inventions, instruments, or designs; or
(f) the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of natural resources such as, land, water, forests and wildlife; or
(g) the formation of welfare associations of flats, tenements, condominiums or floor space owners, may, by subscribing their names to a Memorandum of Association, and filing the same with the Registrar General, form themselves into a society under this Regulation.
CHAPTER IV REGISTRATION OF SOCIETY