Section 7. Application for registration.

(1) For the purposes of registration, an application shall be made to the Registrar.
(2) The application shall be signed -
(a) in case of a co-operative society of which no member is a co-
operative society, by at least fifteen persons qualified in
accordance with the requirements of section 4; and
(b) in case of a federal co-operative society of which a member is a
co-operative society, by a duly authorised person on behalf of
such co-operative society and where all the members of the
federal co-operative society are not co-operative societies, upto
one-fifths of total strength or twenty, whichever is less, of other
members, by the minimum number of fifteen and where all
members are co-operative societies by duly authorised persons
on behalf of fifteen different co-operative societies.