17[(1)Where a cooperative society is registered under this Act, the Registrar shall issue a certificate of registration signed and sealed by him, which shall be conclusive evidence that the said society is duly registered under this Act.]
17[(2)Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where the Registrar is satisfied that the original registration certificate is irrecoverably lost and a duplicate certificate could not be issued as the files or records regarding the registration of the co-operative society was lost, after registration, the Registrar shall issue a certificate stating the registration number and date of registration of a co-operative society, on the basis of the details available in the audit certificate and the records available with the Registrar, signed and sealed by him, which shall be conclusive proof that the said society is duly registered and it shall be treated as a certificate of registration.]
17 Section 8 is numbered as sub section (1) of that section and new sub section (2) is inserted after sub section (1) by Act 8 of 2013 file:///home/user/Desktop/share/B/2022/B1/..%2FKCS%20Act%20&%20Amendment%20-%20Copy%2FAmendment%208-%20%202013.pdf file:///home/user/Desktop/share/B/2022/B1/..%2FKCS%20Act%20&%20Amendment%20-%20Copy%2FAmendment%208-%20%202013.pdf 18[8A. Affiliation to apex Society.-(1) Every Primary Co-operative Society or Central Co-operative Society may, within such time and in such manner, as may be prescribed, apply for affiliation to the concerned apex society or Central Society, as the case may be.
(2)Where the apex society or central society does not, within sixty days from the date of receipt of the application for affiliation, determine whether such affiliation should be given or not, such affiliation shall be deemed to have been given to the applicant society from the date on which the said period of sixty days expires.
(3)When the apex or central society, as the case may be, rejects an application for affiliation under sub-section (1), the aggrieved society may file an appeal before the Registrar against such rejection within thirty days from the date of receipt of the order of rejection and the Registrar shall dispose of the appeal within sixty days from the date of appeal.]
18 inserted by Act 1 of 2000 file:///home/user/Desktop/share/B/2022/B1/..%2FKCS%20Act%20&%20Amendment%20-%20Copy%2FAmendment%201-%202000.pdf