Bare ActsKerala Cooperative Societies Act, 1969

Section 35

First charge of society on certain assets.

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(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, but subject to any prior claim of the Government in respect of land revenue or any money recoverable as land revenue, any debt or outstanding demand owing to a society by any member or past member or deceased member shall be a first charge-- (a) upon the corps or other agricultural produces of such member for the raising of which the loan was taken from the society by such member; and (b) upon any cattle, fodder for cattle, agricultural or industrial implements or machinery, or raw materials for manufacture, supplied or purchased in whole or in part out of any loan given, the society, or on any article manufactured from raw materials so supplied or purchased. (2) No person shall transfer any property which is subject to a charge under sub-section (1) except with the previous permission in writing of the society which holds the charge. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, any transfer of property made in contravention of the provision of sub-section (2) shall be void. (4) The charge created under sub-section (1) shall be available as against any claim of the Government arising from any loan granted by them after the grant of the loan by the society.

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