{"act":{"id":"andhra-pradesh-societies-registration-act-2001","short_title":"The Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 2001","long_title":null,"act_number":"35","act_year":2001,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Andhra Pradesh","unit":"section","section_count":32,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/82dc05f8-e32c-4cec-9b08-15d2291e7e05.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/andhra-pradesh-societies-registration-act-2001/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"3","heading":"Societies which may be registered under this Act","text":"(1) Any seven or more persons forming a society which has for its object the promotion of art, fine art, charity, crafts, religion, sports(excluding games of chance), literature, culture, science, political education, philosophy or diffusion of any knowledge or any public purpose may be registered under this Act. (2) No society of which a firm, whether registered or not or an unincorporated association of individuals is a member shall be registered under this Act. (3) Nothing contained in sub-section (2) shall preclude the registration under this Act of a society on the ground that a partner as defined in section 4 of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (Central Act 9 of 1932), or a member of an unincorporated Association of individuals is, in his individual capacity, a member of the society.","html":"<p>Societies which may be registered under this Act - (1) Any seven or more persons forming a society which has for its object the promotion of art, fine art, charity, crafts, religion, sports(excluding games of chance), literature, culture, science, political education, philosophy or diffusion of any knowledge or any public purpose may be registered under this Act. (2) No society of which a firm, whether registered or not or an unincorporated association of individuals is a member shall be registered under this Act. (3) Nothing contained in sub-section (2) shall preclude the registration under this Act of a society on the ground that a partner as defined in section 4 of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (Central Act 9 of 1932), or a member of an unincorporated Association of individuals is, in his individual capacity, a member of the society.</p>","words":140,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/andhra-pradesh-societies-registration-act-2001/section/3/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/82dc05f8-e32c-4cec-9b08-15d2291e7e05.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/965b4c28-097d-41af-8d85-bc61b03ec4f1/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}