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Clauses (a) and (b) substituted by ibid. 60 [Act No.7 of 1964] committee shall be in such manner as may be prescribed by the State Cooperative Election Authority. (b) In any other case, the election officer and the manner of election of the members of the committee shall be such as may be prescribed by the State Cooperative Election Authority:] Provided that where a requisition signed by not less than one-fifth of the total number of members is received by the Registrar to appoint an election officer to conduct an election, the Registrar shall appoint the election officer to conduct the election. 142[(4) (a) For the purpose of electing members to its committee, a society may provide in its bye-laws, for the division of the area of operation of a society into territorial constituencies, or of the membership of the society into electoral groups on any other basis, for the number or proportion of members who may be elected to represent each such territorial constituency or electoral group on the committee, and for the manner of election of such representatives. (b) In the absence of such bye-laws, the society may elect members to its committee from among all the members of the society.] 143[(5) In the case of such classes of Co-operative Societies as may be prescribed the president shall 144[subject to the provisions of section 21-A, be elected by the members of the committee] from among themselves in the manner prescribed. 145[xxx].