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Section 4

Types of Organizations and Registration

1.0 The Management shall ensure that the Organization is registered as applicable, and its membership

valid throughout the time period of its operation.

The Management shall ensure that the Organization is registered with the Apex Body from the field of

hiking & mountaineering in Maharashtra State)

2.0 Guidelines

2.1 Types of Organizations and their mandatory registrations with the Government bodies is as follows

Entity Document Statutory Registration Legal Entity Adventure

Registration

Proprietorship

None required Not Required No Apex Body

Partner Partnership Deed Not Required

(Notarization)

No Apex Body

Private Ltd Co.

MOA Companies Act Yes Apex Body

Public Ltd. Co.

AOA Companies Act, SEBI Yes Apex Body

Society

Society charter Charity Commissioner Yes Apex Body

Public Trust

Trust Deed Charity Commissioner Yes Apex Body

2.2 Advantages of Registration

• To ensure that the field of adventure activities is regulated appropriately.

• To ensure competence of operators and other service providers.

• To ensure safety of all participants as the primary concern.

• To take practices in the field of outdoors to the highest professional level through regulation and

guidance, equal to the best in the world.

• To ensure that better and more consistent information on the adventure tourism sector is

regularly collected, collated and disseminated to all stakeholders.

2.3 Registration of the Organization with APEX BODY

The process of registration of the Organization with apex body is as follows

• Organization shall furnish required information in the prescribed format to apex body along with

Management’s commitment on implementation of Safety Guidelines in the Organization.

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• Apex Body shall review the furnished information and their commitment and register the

Organization as ‘Member’.

The registration is valid initially for one year and then valid for three years.

Apex Body shall reject the application in case the furnished information and commitment are

found to be inadequate.

• During the period of registration, the organization shall furnish details on annual basis on ‘High

Risk’ activities carried out along with assurance from the Management on implementation of

Safety Guidelines. In case the information provided is not adequate, Apex Body shall request the

Organization for required information to substantiate their claim for implementation of Safety

Guidelines in the Organization.

• Apex Body shall cancel the registration in case Organization fails to substantiate their claim

regarding implementation of Safety Guidelines in the Organization.

3.0 Verification

• Evidence of

o Statutory Registration

o Adventure Registration