Notification on Removal of Inactive Societies from the Register (3 VI 1 1t)

What the notification does

Notification No. 4192/A3/2008, published by the Tamil Nadu Government in the Heads of Departments Notifications on Thai 14, Thiruvalluvar Year 2041, with the Gregorian date line printed as Wednesday, the twenty seventh, 2010, concerns inactive registered societies. The supplied text does not identify an individual government department.

The notification states that the listed societies had not filed reports relating to the societies from the time they were registered in 2004. Because reports had not been filed for more than three continuous years, the Government proposed removing their names from the societies register under section 44(3)(b) of the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975.

Who is affected

The notification directly affects the societies named in its annexure, including women’s welfare associations, self help associations, trade and occupational bodies, farmers’ groups, clubs and public welfare organisations. The listed societies are associated mainly with places such as Dindigul, Kodaikanal, Natham, Nilakottai, Batlagundu, Devadanapatti and Gandhigram.

Members, office bearers, creditors and people dealing with a listed society may need to verify whether the society provided an explanation and whether its name was later removed.

Key provisions

• The annexure identifies each society by its registration number, registration date and name.
• The notification records non filing from the 2003 to 2004 financial year for the listed societies.
• The table refers to missing filings such as undertakings, receipts and expenditure statements, and copies of resolutions for some entries.
• A listed society had three months from publication of the notification in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette to provide a satisfactory explanation.
• If no satisfactory explanation was received within that period, the society’s name would be removed from the societies register.
• The notification is a warning and proposed removal process. The supplied text does not record the final removal of any listed society.

Relevance to property transactions

Notification No. 4192/A3/2008 concerns the legal registration status of societies, not land classification, ownership records, planning permission or land registration. It may still matter where a listed society owns, sells, leases or otherwise deals with property, because its registration status may need to be checked separately.