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Appointment of committee.- (1) The management of a registered society shall vest in a committee constituted in accordance with the Act, the rules and the bye-laws. It shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be conferred or imposed respectively by the Act, the rules and the by-laws: Provided that, in the case of a society registered after the commencement of this Act, the persons who have signed the application to register the society may appoint a committee to conduct the affairs of the society for a period of three months from the date of registration or for such further period not exceeding nine months as the Registrar may consider necessary; but the Committee appointed under this proviso shall cease to function as soon as a committee has been constituted in accordance with the by-laws. (2) Where the by-laws so provide, the Government or the Registrar may nominate all or any of the members of the Committee for such period as may be specified in the by-laws: Provided that the entire Committee may be nominated for a total period not exceeding three years from the commencement of the society and thereafter not more them one-third of the Committee may be nominated for a further period not exceeding three years and the remaining by election. 65 *[“(3) (i) The committee shall consist of not less than seven and not more than fifteen members in a registered society classified as a primary society and not less than nine and not more than twenty-one members in a registered society classified as a central or an apex society. (ii) Out of the total number of members of the committee, not less than two, shall be reserved for women and for weaker sections among the members of such class of societies and in such manner as may be prescribed. (iii) Every registered primary society, other than a society which is formed exclusively for the benefit of students or fishermen or members belonging to the scheduled castes, shall provide one seat in a committee which has a membership of not more than nine members and two seats in a committee which has a membership exceeding nine members for the members belonging to scheduled castes, who shall be elected by and from among the members of such society: Provided that, if no member belonging to the scheduled castes is elected to the committee of a registered primary society under this clause, then such committee shall co-opt the members of the scheduled castes from among the members of the society to the membership of the committee: Provided further that, a casual vacancy, arising out of resignation, death or otherwise of such member shall be filled up by way of co-option from among the members of the society belonging to scheduled castes. (iv) Nothing contained in clauses (ii) of (iii) shall prevent the women members or members belonging to weaker sections or scheduled castes form being elected to the non-reserved seats in the committee.”] (4) (a) Where the Government or a financing bank has taken shares in, or given financial or other assistance to a registered society, the Government or the financing bank, as the case may be, may nominate one member to the Committee of the society, if it is classified as a primary society or a central society and not more than 2 members to the Committee of the society if it is classified as an apex society. (b) Whether the Government or the financing bank or both should make the nominations shall be determined by the Government. (c) Where the Government nominates, the nominee shall be a Government servant. (d) The Government or the financing bank may, at any time, withdraw any person or persons so nominated and fill up the vacancy or vacancies by fresh nomination. (5) (a) All the members of any committee constituted under this Act, shall hold office for a term of three years from such date as may be specified. All the members of the Committee including those elected or co-opted in casual vacancies caused by death or resignation or otherwise, shall vacate their office on the expiry of the term. The election of all the members of the Committee shall be completed one week before the date of expiry of the term: Provided that, in the case of the first election of the members of the Committee under this Act, all the members on any Committee constituted before the commencement of this Act, shall vacate their office on such date as may be notified, irrespective of the period or periods for which they might have been elected. (b) If for any unavoidable reason election to a committee is not held before the expiry of its term, the Registrar may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, direct that the term of office of the members of the committee shall extend upto such date as he may fix, provided that such extension shall not be for a period exceeding six months. (c) The term of office of a member of any committee nominated thereto by the Government, the Registrar or the financing bank, if such member is a non-official, ___________________________________________________________________________ * Substituted vide Act No. 9 of 2010 and enforced w. e. f 15th November 2011 vide Notification issued under GO Ms. No.2/Co-op dated 11.11.2011 ___________________________________________________________________________ 66 shall be for a period not exceeding three years and shall expire with the expiry of the term of office of the elected members. (6) The election of the members of the Committee shall be by ballot in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that, any casual vacancy in the office of a member of the Committee shall be filled in such manner as may be specified in the rules or the by-laws and a member of the committee filling a casual vacancy shall hold office so long only as the member of the committee whose place he takes would have been entitled to hold office if the vacancy had not occurred. (7) (a) A meeting of the committee shall be held at least once in three months. The President shall convene the meetings of the committee. He may, at any time, call a special meeting of the committee, and shall call such a meeting within fifteen days of the date of a requisition in this behalf from- (i) not less than one-third of the members of the committee: or (ii) the committee of the financing bank to which the society is affiliated; or (iii) the Register. (b) The requisition referred to in clause (a) shall be in writing and shall specify the subjects that shall be placed for consideration at the special meeting of the committee.