Section 3
[(ka) "financial year", in relation to any multi-State co-operative society or class of such societies, means the year ending on the 31st day of March of the year and where the accounts of such society or class of such societies are, with the previous sanction of the Central Registrar, balanced on any other day, the year ending on such day;]
3 [(ka) "financial year", in relation to any multi-State co-operative society or class of such societies, means the year ending on the 31st day of March of the year and where the accounts of such society or class of such societies are, with the previous sanction of the Central Registrar, balanced on any other day, the year ending on such day;]
(l) "general body", in relation to a multi-State co-operative society, means all the members of that society and in relation to a national co-operative society or a federal co-operative means all the delegates of member co-operative societies or delegates of multi-State co-operative societies and includes a body constituted under the first proviso to sub-section (1) of section 38;
(m) "general meeting" means a meeting of the general body of a multi-State co-operative society and includes special general meeting;
(n) "member" means a person joining in the application for the registration of a multi-State co-operative society and includes a person admitted to membership after such registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the rules and the bye-laws;
(o) "member co-operative" means a co-operative society or a multi-State co-operative society which is member of a federal co -operative;
(p) "multi-State co-operative society" means a society registered or deemed to be registered under this Act and includes a national co -operative society and a Federal co-operative;
(q) "multi-State co-operative society with limited liability" means a society having the liability of its members limited by its bye-laws to the amount, if any, unpaid on the shares, respectively, held by them or to such amount as they may, respectively, thereby undertake to contribute to the assets of the society, in the event of its being wound up;
(r) "national co-operative society" means a multi-State co-operative society specified in the Second Schedule;
(s) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette 3 [and the expression 'notified' with its cognate meanings and grammatical variations shall be construed accordingly;]
(t) "officer" means a president, vice-president, chairperson, vice-chairperson, managing director, secretary, manager, member of a board, treasurer, liquidator, an administrator appointed under section 123 and includes any other person empowered under this Act or the rules or the bye-laws to give directions in regard to the business of a multi-State co-operative society;
(u) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules;