(!) All dues recoverable under this Act or Rules framed thereunder shall be reduced to the form of a Co-operative demand certificate, as in Schedule A over the signature of the Registrar or of such gazetted officers as may have powers delegated io (hem by the Registrar in this behalf and shall be recovered as an arrear of land revenue and shall be paid to the : certificate holder or his authorised nominee. Such, certificate shall be in the name of the claimant and shall be delivered to him.
(2) Not more than one officer in each civil subdivision or other administra tive area shall be vested with the power to issue Co-operative demand certificates under sub-clause (1). No officer shall entertain any application for a certificate unless the claimant’s registered address falls within his area of jurisdiction.
The Registrar shall not entertain any application for a Co-operative demand ■ certificate from any claimant whose registered address falls within the jurisdic tion of any officer who has been invested with the power to issue such certificates.
[Explanation.—‘The certificate officer’ means the officer so defined in, and the ‘prescribed form’ means the form so prescribed under the Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913].
(3) For the purpose of this section a member of an affiliated society shall be deemed to be a member of the affiliating society and Ioans due to the affiliated • society shall be deemed also to be loans due to the affiliating society to the extent that loans from the affiliating society to the affiliated society are outstanding ’Substituted by the A.O., 1950 for “Provincial” jl th.
and cannot be recovered from the affiliated society directly, provided that nos more than one demand certificate may be executed against a single loan.