Power to make rules

Power to make rules:—

1. (1) The Government may, by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, make rules for carrying out all or any of the purposes of this Act.
2. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for,—
   • (a) all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed ;
   • (b) the entry of new members, the check of the list of members and the procedure for their admission and the entry of the name of every person admitted or deemed to have been admitted as a member of the society in such records of the society as may be prescribed ;
   • (c) the procedure for the removal of members including associate members ;
   • (d) the procedure to be followed in proceedings before the Registrar or arbitrator or other person deciding disputes ;
   • (e) the procedure to be followed by the liquidator and for the disposal of surplus assets ;
   • (f) the procedure to be followed for the custody and preservation of records of the societies, for the grant of certified copies of such records and for the fees to be charged for the grant of such copies ;
   • (g) the qualifications and the method of appointment of auditors ;
   • (h) the preparation and submission of annual reports and financial statements by the societies and the publication of such reports and statements ;
     • (i) the procedure for the conduct of elections to the committees and other bodies of societies, including the reservation of seats for members of the weaker sections [and women], and for the settlement of election disputes ;
   • (j) the procedure for the inspection of the books of a society by the Registrar or financing bank ;
   • (k) the procedure for the recovery of sums due to a society from a member ;
   • (l) the mode of serving summons and notices and of publishing orders ;
   • (m) the procedure for the registration of Societies and amendment of bye-laws ;
   • (n) the procedure for the determination of the class of societies and the conditions for the registration of societies.
3. (3) Every rule made under this section shall, immediately after it is made, be laid before the Legislative Assembly of the State if it is in session and if it is not in session, in the session immediately following for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiration of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, the Legislative Assembly agrees in making any modification in the rule or in the annulment of the rule, the rule shall, from the date of notification of such modification or annulment in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette have effect only in such modified form or shall stand annulled, as the case may be ; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.