(1) An application for the registration of a society shall be made in the manner prescribed by the Registrar in such forms as the Registrar may from time to time specify; and the applicants shall furnish to him all such information’s about the society as he may require.
(2) Every such application shall conform to the following requirements namely-
(a) That it is accompanied by three copies of the proposed bye-laws of the society;
(b) That the applicants are eligible for membership under section 17.
(c) That the application is duly signed by every applicant himself, if he is an individual, and by a duly authorized person if the applicant is any of the persons mentioned in any of the clauses (b) to (g) lf section 17;
(d) That the number of applicants, who are to be ordinary members of the society, is not less than ten, if all the applicants are individuals, and is not less than five in all other cases;
(e) That where the objects of the society include the creation of funds to be lent to its members, all the applicants who are to be the ordinary members of society, if individuals reside in the same town or village or a group of contiguous villages, or belong to the same class.
Explanation: - For the purposes of this clause any two or more persons shall be deemed to belong to the same class, if they pursue the same occupation or are under a common employers.
Registration 7. (1) If the Registrar is satisfied-
(a) that the application complies with the provisions of this act and the rules;
(b) that the object of the proposed society are in accordance with section 4;
(c) that the proposed bye-laws are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and the rules; and
(d) that the proposed society complies with the requirements of rules in regard to the existence of any conditions in general or for the class of societies to which the particular society belongs and with the requirements of sound business and has reasonable chances of success:
The Registrar shall resister the society and its by-laws.
However, if the Registrar does not pass final orders thereon either registering the society or refusing its registration within two months from the date of the receipt of the application by him, the applicants may make a representation to the authority competent to hear under section 98 appeals against after calling for a report from the Registrar, passes an order for registration of society, the society shall be deemed to have been duly registered from the date of communication of such order to the Registrar.
(2) Where the Registrar refuses to register a society, he shall communicate the order of refusal together with the reasons to such applicant as has been named in the application for this purpose and in default of such naming, to any one of the applicant.
Registration certificate