(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, where a compromise or arrangement is proposed between a co-operative society and its creditor or creditors or any class of them, the Registrar, upon an application made in the prescribed manner by the society or by any creditor or, in the case of a society in respect of which an order has been passed for the winding up thereof, by the liquidator, may order a meeting of the creditors or the class of creditors, as the case may be, to be called, held and conducted in such manner as may be prescribed.
(2) If a majority in number of the creditors or the class of creditors, as the case may be, representing claims to three-fourths of the debts due by the society to the creditors or the class of creditors, present either in person or by proxy at the meeting, agree to any compromise or arrangement, such compromise or arrangement shall, if sanctioned by the Registrar, upon publication in the prescribed manner, be binding on all the creditors or the class of creditors, as the case may be, and also on the society or, in the case of a society in respect of which an order has been passed for the winding up thereof, on the liquidator and on all persons who have been or may be required by the liquidator under section 91 to contribute to the assets of the society.
Investment of funds.
CHAPTER VI PROPERTY AND FUNDS OF CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES
55. A co-operative society may invest or deposit its funds—
(a) in a Government Savings Bank; or
(b) in any of the securities specified in section 20 of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882; or
(c) with the sanction of the Registrar, in the shares or debentures or on the security of any other co-operative society with limited liability:
Provided that no such sanction shall be necessary when a primary society invests or deposits its funds in the shares or debentures of a central or an apex society, or a central or an apex society invests or deposits its funds in the shares or debentures of a primary society; or
(d) in any other manner prescribed.
2 of 1882.
192 The West Bengal Co-operative Societies Act, 1973.
XXXVHI of 1973.1 (Chapter VI.—Property and funds of co-operative societies.— Section 56.)