(1) If it appears to the Registrar that an amendment of the bylaws of a co-operative society is necessary or desirable in the interests of such society, the Registrar or any person authorised by him in writing may, of his own motion or on the application of a financing bank of which the society is a member and a debtor, call a special general meeting of the society in the prescribed manner to make the amendment within such time as he may specify.
(2) If the society fails to make the amendment within the time specified in sub-section (1), the Registrar may, after giving the society an opportunity of being heard and after consulting the financing bank, if any, of which the society is a member and a debtor, register the amendment and forward to the society a copy thereof, together with a certificate signed by him which shall be conclusive evidence that the amendment has been registered, and subject to appeal, if any, such amendment shall be binding upon the society and its members.
Evidence of registration.
Amendment of by-laws of a cooperative society.
Power of the Registrar to direct amendment of the bylaws.
165 The West Bengal Co-operative Societies Act 1973.
[West Ben. Act (Chapter 111.—Status and management of co-operative societies.—Sections 19-21.)
CHAPTER III STATUS AND MANAGEMENT OP CO-OPERATIVE SOCIEIIES Co-operative societies to be bodies corporate.
19. The registration of a co-operative society shall render it a body corporate by the name under which it is registered, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, to enter into contracts, to institute and defend suits and other legal proceedings and to do all things necessary for the purposes for which it was constituted.
Final 20. (1) The final authority of every co-operative society shall vest authority of in the general body of members in general meeting: coperative Provided that in such circumstances as may be prescribed, the final society. authority may vest in the delegates of such members, elected in the prescribed manner and assembled in general meeting.
(2) The general meeting shall be summoned and shall exercise its authority in such manner as may be prescribed.
General meeting.