GCSA 160 — Registrar's power to give direction

Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961

Statutory text

(1) If the Registrar of his own motion or otherwise is satisfied that in public interest for the purposes of securing the proper implementation of co-operative production and other development programmes approved or undertaken by the State Government or for linking and coordinating of co-operative activities such as marketing and credit, or securing the proper management of the business of the society generally or preventing the affairs of the society being conducted in an manner detrimental to the interests of the members, or of the depositors or the creditors thereof, it is necessary to issue directions to any class of societies generally or to any society or societies in particular, he may issue directions to them, from time to time, and all societies or the society concerned, as the case may be, shall be bound comply with such directions.

(2) The Registrar may of his own motion or otherwise modify or cancel any directions issued under sub-section (1), and in modifying or canceling such directions he may impose such conditions as he may deem fit.

(3) Where the Registrar is satisfied that any committee or, s the case may be, a general body of any society, whose duty it was to comply with any directions issued or modified as aforesaid, has failed, without any reasonable or sufficient cause, to comply with such directions, the Registrar may exercise the powers conferred on him under sub-section (1) of section 107.

(4) Where the Registrar is satisfied that any person, whose duty it was to comply with any directions issued or modified as aforesaid, has failed without any reasonable or sufficient cause, to comply with such directions, the Registrar may, by an order in writing,—

(a) if such failure is committed by a member of the committee of the society in his capacity as a member from the committee and

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