Societies Registration Act, 1860
20. To what societies Act applies
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.