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142                  THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                    (Part IXB.—Co-operative Societies)
         (b) any person wilfully or without any reasonable excuse disobeys
      any summons, requisition or lawful written order issued under the
      provisions of the State Act;
         (c) any employer who, without sufficient cause, fails to pay to a
      co-operative society amount deducted by him from its employee within a
      period of fourteen days from the date on which such deduction is made;
         (d) any officer or custodian who wilfully fails to handover custody of
      books, accounts, documents, records, cash, security and other property
      belonging to a co-operative society of which he is an officer or
      custodian, to an authorised person; and
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         (e) whoever, before, during or after the election of members of the
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      board or office bearers, adopts any corrupt practice.
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       243ZR. Application to multi-State co-operative societies.—The
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provisions of this Part shall apply to the multi-State co-operative societies
subject to the modification that any reference to “Legislature of a State”, “State
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Act” or “State Government” shall be construed as a reference to “Parliament”,
“Central Act” or “the Central Government” respectively.
        243ZS. Application to Union territories.—The provisions of this Part
shall apply to the Union territories and shall, in their application to a Union
territory, having no Legislative Assembly as if the references to the Legislature
of a State were a reference to the administrator thereof appointed under
article 239 and, in relation to a Union territory having a Legislative Assembly,
to that Legislative Assembly:
        Provided that the President may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
direct that the provisions of this Part shall not apply to any Union territory or
part thereof as he may specify in the notification.
        243ZT. Continuance of existing laws.— Notwithstanding anything in
this Part, any provision of any law relating to co-operative societies in force in
a State immediately before the commencement of the Constitution
(Ninety-seventh Amendment) Act, 2011, which is inconsistent with the
provisions of this Part, shall continue to be in force until amended or repealed
by a competent Legislature or other competent authority or until the expiration
of one year from such commencement, whichever is less.]

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