Body corporate ‑ Societies registered under the Societies Registration Act ‑ Whether “body corporate” - Companies Law - No. 8(26)/2(7)/63‑PR,

Circular : No. 8(26)/2(7)/63 ‑ PR, dated 13 ‑ 3 ‑ 1963. SECTIONS 2, 4, 4A, 5, 6 10 Preliminary SECTION 2 Definitions Subject:- Body corporate ‑ Societies registered under the Societies Registration Act ‑ Whether body corporate The question whether a particular institution or body other than that specified in sub‑clauses (a), (b) and (c) of clause (7) of section 2 is a body corporate under the said Act has to be decided with reference, among other things, to the status, mode of incorporation, constitution, etc., of the institution. It is not possible for the department to lay down any general definition other than that given in the Act or to furnish a list of bodies which are deemed to be bodies corporate under section 2(7). Generally speaking, the department would consider that any corporate body, i.e., a body which has been or is incorporated under some statute and which has a perpetual succession, a common seal and is a legal entity apart from the members constituting it, will come within the definition of the term body corporate . The term will not, however, include a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, or any of the bodies which have been specifically excluded by sub‑clauses (a), (b) and (c) of clause (7) of section 2.