Societies Registration Act : To what societies Act applies. Indian Bare Acts :

Societies Registration Act,1860

Act No : 21

Section : To what societies Act applies.

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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 79