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                                    [PART IXB
                       THE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES
       243ZH. Definitions.—In this Part, unless the context otherwise
requires,—
           (a) “authorised person” means a person referred to as such in article
       243ZQ;
           (b) “board” means the board of directors or the governing body of a
       co-operative society, by whatever name called, to which the direction
       and control of the management of the affairs of a society is entrusted to;
           (c) “co-operative society” means a society registered or deemed to be
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       registered under any law relating to co-operative societies for the time
       being in force in any State;                    od
           (d) “multi-State co-operative society” means a society with objects
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       not confined to one State and registered or deemed to be registered under
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       any law for the time being in force relating to such co-operatives;
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           (e) “office bearer” means a President, Vice-President, Chairperson,
       Vice-Chairperson, Secretary or Treasurer, of a co-operative society and
       includes any other person to be elected by the board of any co-operative
       society;
           (f) “Registrar” means the Central Registrar appointed by the Central
       Government in relation to the multi-State co-operative societies and the
       Registrar for co-operative societies appointed by the State Government
       under the law made by the Legislature of a State in relation to
       co-operative societies;
           (g) “State Act” means any law made by the Legislature of a State;
           (h) “State level co-operative society” means a co-operative society
       having its area of operation extending to the whole of a State and defined
       as such in any law made by the Legislature of a State.
       243ZI. Incorporation of co-operative societies.—Subject to the
provisions of this Part, the Legislature of a State may, by law, make provisions
with respect to the incorporation, regulation and winding up of co-operative
societies based on the principles of voluntary formation, democratic
member-control, member-economic participation and autonomous functioning.

1. Part IXB ins. by the Constitution (Ninety-seventh Amendment) Act, 2011, s. 4
   (w.e.f. 15-2-2012).

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