Section 15 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Member defined For the purposes of this Act a member of a society shall be a person who, having been admitted therein according to the rules and regulations thereof, shall have paid a subscription, or shall have signed the roll or list of members thereof, and shall not have resigned in accordance with such rules […]

Section 14 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Upon a dissolution no member to receive profit If upon the dissolution of any society registered under this Act there shall remain, after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, any property whatsoever, the same shall not be paid to or distributed among the members of the said society or any of them, but

Section 13 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Provision for dissolution of societies and adjustment of their affairs Any number not less than three-fifths of the members of any society may determine that it shall be dissolved, and thereupon it shall be dissolved forthwith, or at the time then agreed upon, and all necessary steps shall be taken for the disposal and settlement

Section 12 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Societies enabled to alter, extend or abridge their purposes Whenever it shall appear to the governing body of any society registered under this Act, which has been established for any particular purpose or purposes, that it is advisable to alter, extend, or abridge such purpose to or for other purposes within the meaning of this

Section 11 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Members guilty of offences punishable as strangers Any member of the society who shall steal, purloin, or embezzle any money or other property, or wilfully, and maliciously destroy or injure any property of such society, or shall forge and deed, bond, security for money, receipt, or other instrument, whereby the funds of the society may

Section 10 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Members liable to be sued as strangers Any member who may be in arrear of a subscription which according to the rules of the society he is bound to pay, or who shall possess himself of or detain any property of the society in a manner or for a time contrary to such rules, or

Section 9 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law Whenever by any bye-law duly made in accordance with the rules and regulations of the society, or, if the rules do not provide for the making of bye- laws, by any bye-laws made at a general meeting of the members of the society convened for the purpose (for the

Section 8 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Enforcement of judgment against society If a judgment shall be recovered against the person or officer named on behalf of the society, such judgment shall not be put in force against the property, movable or immovable, or against the body of such person or officer, but against the property of the society. The application for

Section 7 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Suits not to abate No suit or proceeding in any Civil Court shall abate or discontinue by reason of the person, by or against whom such suit or proceedings shall have been brought or continued, dying or ceasing to fill the character in the name whereof he shall have sued or been sued, but the

Section 6 – The Societies Registration Act, 1860

Suits by and against societies Every society registered under this Act may sue or be sued in the name of President, Chairman, or Principal Secretary, or trustees, as shall be determined by the rules and regulations of the society and, in default of such determination, in the name of such person as shall be appointed