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Section 117 substituted by Act No.28 of 1978. Sub-section (1) substituted with marginal heading by G.O.Ms.No.53 Agricultural and Cooperation (Coop-II) Department, dated 20.05.2016. Staffing pattern. Delivery of possession of records and properties of the society. [Act No.7 of 1964] 165 official assignee is resisted in, or prevent from, obtaining possession of the books, accounts, documents, securities, cash and other properties, whether movable or immovable of the society (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‗records and the properties of the society‘) by the previous committee or superseded committee or by the society which has been ordered to be wound up or by a person who is not entitled to be in possession of the records and properties of the society, the Registrar shall on application by new committee, Administrator(s), Liquidator or Official Assignee if satisfied, authorise, in the prescribed form setting forth the reasons therefore, any officer subordinate to him, not below the rank of Senior Inspector of Co-operative Societies, to enter, search, or break open any premises where such records and properties of the society are kept and to seize any such records and properties of the society and to cause delivery to the new committee, Administrator(s), Liquidator or Official Assignee, of the records and properties of the society.] (2) For the purpose of the proceedings under sub- section (1), the authorisation aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence that the records and properties to which it relates belong to the society. (3) The officer authorised under sub-section (1) may take such police assistance as may be necessary for the said purpose and the expenses incurred under this section shall be borne from the funds of the society. (4) The provisions of section 100 to 102 (both inclusive) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 relating to searches and seizure shall apply, so far as may be, to searches and seizure under this section.] Central Act 2 of 1974. 166 [Act No.7 of 1964]