Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 1984
Chapter IV: Direction
and Management of Multi-State Cooperative Societies
29. General body, its
constitution, powers and functions.-
1.
The
general body of a multi-State cooperative society shall consist of all the
members of such society;
Provided that where the bye-laws
of a multi-State cooperative society provide for the constitution of a smaller
body consisting of delegates of members of the society elected or selected in
accordance with such byelaws, that smaller body shall exercise such powers of the
general body as may be prescribed or as may be specified in the bye-laws of the
society.
1.
2.
Subject
to the provisions of this Act, the rules and the bye-laws, the ultimate
authority of a multi-State cooperative society shall vest in the general body
of its members:
Provided that nothing contained in
this sub-section shall affect the exercise by the board or any officer of a
multi-State cooperative society of any power conferred on such board or such
officer by this Act or the rules or the bye-laws.
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2.
3.
Where
in any meeting of the general body or the board of a multi-State cooperative
society, a cooperative society or another multi-State cooperative society is to
be represented, such cooperative society or other multi-State cooperative
society shall be represented in such meeting only through the Chairman or the
Chief Executive of such cooperative society or other multi-State cooperative
society, as the case may be, and where there is no board or such cooperative
society or other multi-State cooperative society, for whatever reasons, through
the administrator, by whatever name called, of such cooperative society or
other multi-State cooperative society.