Societies Registration Act : Registration of societies formed before Act. Indian Bare Acts :

Societies Registration Act,1860

Act No : 21

Section : Registration of societies formed before Act.

17. Registration of societies formed before Act.--Any company or society established for a literary, scientific, or charitable purpose, and registered under 3*Act 43 of 1850, or any such society established and constituted previously to the passing of this Act but not registered under the said Act 3*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 3*Act 43 of 1850, the directors shall be deemed to be such governing body. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "whenever the Government". 2. Subs. ibid, for "without the consent of Government". 3. Rep. by the Indian Companies Act, 1866 (10 of 1866), s. 219, see now the Companies Act, 1956(1 of 1956). 78 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.