Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act, 1961
(i) (a) No member of a society in the Central Co-operative Bank and the State Co-operative Bank shall be eligible to be elected as a member in the committee if he is in default for a period of twelve months in payment of dues to the society; (b) no person elected as a member of a society in the Central Co-operative Bank and the State Co-operative Bank shall be continued as a member if he is in default for a period exceeding twelve months in payment of dues to the society unless the amount in default with due interest is paid to the society; (c) no member of a Primary Agricultural Credit Co-operative Society shall be eligible to be elected as a member in the committee of the State Co-operative Bank or a Central Co-operative Bank if the society is in default in payment of dues to the co-operative bank unless the default with due interest is paid to the co-operative bank; (d) no member of a non-credit society who is a member in the committee of a Central Co-operative Bank or the State Co-operative Bank shall be continued as such member if the society commits default for a period exceeding 90 days in payment of dues to the bank. (ii) The above provisions shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other provisions for disqualification contained in this Act.] (2) Any salaried employee of a society who was a member of the committee of a specified society immediately before the commencement of the Gujarat Co-operative Societies (amendment) Act, 1981, shall not be disqualified, and be deemed never to have been disqualified, under clause (a) of sub-section (1), if he was at that time holding any office saved form disqualification under the said clause (a) and shall continue to be such member for such period or subject to such term and conditions for which or on which he would have otherwise continued as such member; and anything done or any action taken by such person shall be deemed to be duly done or taken and he committee shall be deemed to be properly constituted, and such thing done or action taken shall not be called in question in any court or authority on the ground only that the committee was not properly constituted or that the person was disqualified to continue as a member. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (b) or (c) of sub-section (1), disqualified under either clause shall not, in the case of a person who on the date of the conviction is a member of any specified society, take effect until three months have elapsed from that date or, if within that period an appeal or application for revision is brought in respect of the conviction of the sentence until that appeal or application is disposed of by the Court,