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Disputes: - (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, [any dispute touching the constitution, management or business, or the liquidation of a society shall be referred to the Registrar] by any of the parties to the dispute if the parties there to are among the following:- (a) a society, its committee, any past committee, any past or present officer, any past or present agent, any past or present servant or a nominee, heirs or legal representatives of any deceased agent or deceased servant of the society, or the liquidator of the society ; (b) a member, past member or a person claiming through a member, past member or deceased member of a society or of a society which is a member of the society ; (c) a person other than a member of the society who has been granted a loan by the society or with whom the society has or had business transactions and any person claiming through such a person. 56 (d) a surety of a member, past member of deceased member or a person other than a member who has been granted a loan by the society, whether such a surety is or is not a member of the society. (e) any other society or the liquidator of such a society; and (f) a creditor of a society. (2) For the purposed of sub-section (1), a dispute shall include - (i) a claim by a society for any debt or demand due to it from a member , past member or the nominee, heir or legal representative of a deceased member, whether such debt or demand be admitted or not; (ii) a claim by a surety against the principal debtor where the society has recovered from the surety any amount in respect of any debt or demand due to it from the principal debtor as a result of the default of the principal debtor, whether such debt or demand be admitted or not; (iii) a claim by a society for any loss caused to it by a member , past member or deceased member, any officer, past officer or deceased officer, any agent, past agent or deceased agent, or any servant , past servant or deceased servant or its committee, past or present , whether such loss be admitted or not ; (iv) a question regarding rights, etc., including tenancy rights between a housing society and its tenants or members; and ¹ [(v) any dispute arising in connection with the election of any officer of the society or of composite society; Provided that the Registrar shall not entertain any dispute under this clause during the period commencing from the announcement of the election programmed till the declaration of the results]. (3) If any question arising whether a dispute referred to the Registrar is a dispute, the decision thereon of the Registrar shall be final and shall not be called in question in any court.