Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Inter. (a) "Court", when used in relation to a society, means pretation. the principal civil court ot original jurisdiction of the district within which the registered office of the society is situate and in relation to a society S;tuate within the Presalency-town of Calcutta, the City Civil Court established wider the City Civil Court Act, 1953; (b) "Governing Body" means the body, by whatever name called, entrusted for the time being with the management of a society under its regu- lations; • • (c) "member", when used in relation to a society, - means a pers-in who has been adthitted with his consent as a member of the society according to its regulations; (West- n. Act • (Section 3.) (d) "memorandum" means the memorandum of asso ciation referred to in section 4; (e) "officer" means a member of the Governing Body, the President, the Secretary or any other odice- bearer of a society and includes also an employee of the society whose work is not of a purely ministerial nature; (f) "officer in default", for the purpose of any provi- sion in this Act, means any officer who is knowingly guilty of any contravention, failure or refusal or who knowingly authorizes or per- mits such contravention, failure or refusal; (g) "President" means the President, the Chairman or the formal head by whatever name called, of a society and includes a person who for the time being acts as the formal head; (h) "registered office" means the registered office mentioned in the memorandum; (i) "Registrar" means a person appointed as Registrar under sect:on .3 and includes, in relation to the exercise of any powers or functions under this Act, any person referred to in that section on whom such powers or functions have been conferred under that section; (j) "regulations" mean the regulations made by a society and, in relation to a society deemed to have been registered under sub-section (2) of :-ection 3G of this Act, include its rules and regulations; (L) "rules" mean rules made by the State Government under section 35; (1) "Secretary" means the Secretary or the principal executive officer, by whatever name called, of a society, and includes a person who for the time being acts as Secretary; (in) "society" means a society registered or deemed to have been registered under this Act; (n) "votes of three-fifths of the members" mean the votes of at least three-fifths of the 'total number of members of a society, given at p. general meeting of the society convened according to its regulations, including votes by proxy where voting by proxy is allowed under the regulations.