Q.The minimum number of members required to register a co-operative society of individuals under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 is:

This tests the single most examined fact of the chapter — the Section 6 minimum for a society whose members are all individuals.

This objective question tests the minimum-membership requirement under Section 6 of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, which is the most frequently examined single fact in this chapter. The correct answer is option (c), ten.

Section 6 provides that a society of which all the members are individuals must consist of at least ten persons. That is why option (c) is correct. It is worth recalling the conditions that go with this number, because examiners often combine them: the ten persons must be qualified to be members, must reside in or carry on their occupation within the society's area of operation, and each must ordinarily belong to a different family, so that a single family cannot be counted as ten separate members. …