law: Societies Registration Act, 1860
  17. Registration of societies formed before
  
  Act
  Any company or society established for a
  
  literary, scientific or charitable purpose, and registered under Act 43 of 1850
  
  7, or any such society established and constituted previously to the
  
  passing of this Act but not registered under the said Act 43 of 1850 may at any
  
  time hereafter be registered as a society under this Act.
  Assent required : Subject to the
  
  proviso that no such company or society shall be registered under this Act
  
  unless an assent to its being so registered has been given by three-fifths of
  
  the members present personally, or by proxy, at some general meeting convened
  
  for that purpose by the governing body.
  In the case of a company or society registered
  
  under this Act 43 of 18507, the directors shall be deemed to be such
  
  governing body.
  In the case of a society not so registered, if
  
  no such body shall have been constituted on the establishment of the society,
  
  it shall be competent for the members thereof, upon due notice, to create for
  
  itself a governing body to act for the society thenceforth.