Inspection of documents is defined under Section 19 of Societies Registration Act 1860
Any person may inspect all documents filed with the Registrar under this Act on payment of a fee of one rupee for each inspection; and any person may require a copy or extract of any document or any part of any document, to be certified by the Registrar, on payment of two annas for every hundred words of such copy or extract;
Certified copies. And such certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of the matters therein contained in all legal proceedings whatever.
SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT 1860
Section 1 - Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration
Section 2 - Memorandum of association
Section 3 - Registration and fees
Section 4 - Annual list of managing body to be filed
Section 5 - Property of society how vested
Section 6 - Suits by and against societies
Section 7 - Suits not to abate
Section 8 - Enforcement of judgment against society
Section 9 - Recovery of penalty accruing under bye-law
Section 10 - Members liable to be sued as strangers
Section 11 - Members guilty of offences punishable as strangers
Section 12 - Societies enabled to alter, extend, or abridge their purposes
Section 13 - Provision for dissolution of societies and adjustment of their affairs
Section 14 - Upon a dissolution no member to receive profit
Section 16 - Governing body defined
Section 17 - Registration of societies formed before Act
Section 18 - Such societies to file memorandum, etc., with Registrar of Joint-stock Companies