Section 7(2)(b) in Himachal Pradesh Co-Operative Societies Act, 1968
(b)where all the applicants are individuals, the number of applicants shall not be less than ten, each of such ten persons being a member of a different family and competent to contract under section 11 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), and where all the applicants are not individuals, the number of such applicants shall not be less than five;