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General Assembly: 1) The General Assembly of a Co-operative Society shall consist of all the members of such Co-operative who are eligible to vote at the Genera Meeting of the society. 2) (a) Every member of a Registered Society and every ex-officio member of the Administrative Council or Managing Body of such society, unless under disqualification, shall have the right to attend any Genera Meeting of the society and to exercise his/hervote at such meeting. Provided that the Bye-Laws of a registered society may prescribe: (i) That a Registered Society affiliated to such society may have more than one representative entitled to vote at Genera Meeting of the society; and (ii) That only one third of the members of the General Assembly, excluding ex-officio members, may be individual members and the other two thirds being representatives of affiliated societies. (b) If the number of individual members exceeds one third of the total membership of the society, the individual members shall elect as a special meeting to be called by Secretary of the society not more than thirty days before the Annual General Meeting in the manner prescribed in the Bye-Laws to represent in the Annual General Meeting, those individual members, who has the representative of the body of 579 individual members shall form the one third membership of the General Assembly for the purpose of voting at the Annual or other meetings of the General Assembly during the ensuring year. Only such elected representatives shall have the right to attend and vote at such General Assembly. 3) If the General Body of Co-operative Society decides that the size, area or types of its membership requires a representative body of delegates for more effective decision making, its Bye-Laws shall provide for a smaller body, called "Delegate General Body" elected from the members in the Annual General Meeting in accordance with the Bye- Laws, to exercise such powers and to discharge such duties of the General Body as may be specified in the Bye-Laws. 4) Subjects to the provisions of this Act and the Bye-Laws, the ultimate power of a Co-operative Society shall vest in the General Body. The supreme authority shall however vest with the State Government or the Registrar of Co-operative Societies, as the case may be, during the pendency of any loan or service to the society from the Government. 5) Any power, function or responsibility, falling within the Co-operative of the Society as a corporate body, which has not been specifically entrusted by this Act or the Bye-Laws to any authority of the Co- operative of the Society may be dealt with by the General Body or by the State Government during the pendency of any loan or services to the society from the Government.