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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Societies Registration Act, 1860 Section 20

To What Societies Act Applies

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Section Text

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,1[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 works of art, collections of natural history, mechanical and philosophical inventions, instruments, or designs.

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1. Inserted by Act 22 of 1927.

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