Disputes which may be referred to the Registrar

("Disputes which may be referred to the Registrar")

1. (1) Notwithstanding anything in any law for the time being in force, if any dispute touching the constitution, management or the business of a society arises—
   • (a) among members, past members and persons claiming through members, past members and deceased members; or
   • (b) between a member, past member or person claiming through a member, past member or deceased member and the society, its committee or any officer, agent or employee of the society; or
   • (c) between the society or its committee and any past committee, any officer, agent or employee, or any past officer, any past agent or past employee or the nominee, heirs or legal representatives of any deceased officer, deceased agent or deceased employee of the society; or
   • (d) between the society and any other society; such dispute shall be referred to the Registrar for decision.
2. (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the following shall be deemed to be disputes touching the constitution, management or the business of a society, namely:—
   • (a) a claim by the society for any debt or other amount due to it from a member, past member or the nominee, heir or legal representative of a deceased member, whether such debt or amount be admitted or not;
   • (b) a claim by a surety against the principal debtor where the society has recovered from the surety any amount in respect of any debt or other amount due to it from the principal debtor as a result of the default of the principal debtor, whether such debt or amount due be admitted or not;
   • (c) a claim by a society for any loss caused to it by a member, past member or deceased member, by any officer, past officer or deceased officer, by any agent, past agent or deceased agent, or by any servant, past servant or deceased servant, or by its committee, past committee or by any officer, past officer or deceased officer of the financing bank;
   • (d) a dispute arising under sub-section
3. (2) of Section 37;
   • (e) a dispute regarding the election of the members of the committee: Provided that the Registrar may, where the dispute in his opinion is of a complicated nature, refer it to a Civil Court for decision.
4. (3) If any question arises whether any person or property is or is not included in the definition of a dispute touching the constitution, management or the business of a society, the decision thereon of the Registrar shall be final and shall not be called in question in any Court.