Section 3: Registration and fees.

Upon such memorandum and certified copy being filed, the Registrar shall certify under his hand that the society is registered under this Act. There shall be paid to the Registrar for every such registration fee of fifty rupees, or such smaller fee as the State Government may, from time to time, direct; and all fees so paid shall be accounted for to the State Government.

STATE AMENDMENT Orissa Insertion of a new section.—In the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), after Section 3, the following section shall be inserted, namely:— 3-A. Prohibition against registration of societies with undesirable names.—No society shall be registered by a name which, in the opinion of the Registrar of Societies is undesirable , being a name identical with or, which in the opinion of the Registrar of Societies so nearly resembles the name by which any other existing society has been previously registered under this Act or anybody corporate which has been incorporated or registered under any other law for the time being in force as to be likely to deceive the public or members of either society or anybody corporate, or which, without the previous permission of the Government concerned , suggests or is calculated to suggest the patronage of that Government or connection with anybody constituted by that Government or any local authority, or which may, subject to any rules made in that behalf, be deemed to be undesirable by the Registrar of Societies.”. [Vide the Odisha Act 6 of 2013, s. 2]