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section 6

Certificate of registration

The Lakshadweep Registration of Societies Regulation, 2025
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Chapter IV REGISTRATION OF SOCIETY

Statutory text
  1. (1) After scrutiny of the documents presented before the Registrar, if he is satisfied that the applicant has complied with all the provisions of this Regulation and the rules made thereunder, he shall enter the particulars of the society registered, in a register maintained by him in physical or electronic form and issue a certificate of registration in such form and manner as may be prescribed. Explanation.––For the purposes of this sub-section, the expression “electronic form” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (r) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
  2. (2) If the Registrar refuses to register a society, he shall state the reasons therefor and communicate the same to the applicant, within such period as may be prescribed in this behalf.
  3. (3) Every society registered shall be assigned a distinct registration number.
  4. (4) Every existing society shall apply in such form as may be prescribed to the Registrar for obtaining a new registration number within a period of one year or such further period, as may be notified by the Government and if the new number is not applied within one year, then number shall be applied along with such fee, as may be prescribed, within a period of six months and if the society fails to move an application for new number within such extended period, the registration may be cancelled.
  5. (5) A certificate of registration shall be the conclusive proof that the society therein mentioned is duly registered unless proved otherwise.
  6. (6) Every society registered under this Regulation shall prominently display its name along with registration number outside its registered office or any other place where it is carrying on its business or operations, and shall have a seal with its name engraved thereon and the name of society, registration number and its registered office shall be mentioned in all documents executed in its favour or on its behalf.
  7. (7) Every society registered under this Regulation shall be a legal entity, by the name in which it has been registered, having perpetual succession and a common seal, with the power, subject to the provisions of this Regulation, to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both movable and immovable, and to contract and to institute and defend suits and other legal proceedings and to do all other things necessary for the furtherance of the aims of the society for which it has been registered.

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