Goa Co-operative Tribunal

(1) The Government shall constitute a Tribunal called the Goa Co-operative Tribunal to exercise the powers and to discharge the functions conferred on it by or under this Act. (2) The Co-operative Tribunal shall consist of a President and an Additional President both of whom shall be appointed by the Government. Both, the President and the Additional President, shall have co-extensive powers and concurrent jurisdiction to deal with the cases filed in the Co-operative Tribunal. The Additional President shall decide such cases as are made over to him by the President. (3)(a) the President or the Additional President of the Co-operative Tribunal shall be a person who is qualified to be appointed as a District Judge or is or has been a Judicial Officer for a period of seven years or has held the post of the President of the Goa, Daman and Diu Co-operative Tribunal for a period of five years or is holding or has held the post of Registrar of Co-operative Societies for a period not less than three years or has been a Secretary to the Government of Goa. (b) [Deleted/omitted] (4) The Government may appoint the President or the Additional President of the Co-operative Tribunal appointed under the Goa Administrative Tribunal Act, 1965 (Act No. 6 of 1965 ) to be the President of the Co-operative Tribunal. (5) The Co-operative Tribunal shall frame regulations consistent with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, for regulating its procedure and the disposal of its business. (6) The regulations made under sub-section (4), shall be published in the Official Gazette. The regulations governing the procedure of the Goa, Daman and Diu Co-operative Tribunal constituted under section 149 of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 (Maharashtra Act XXIV of 1961), as applied to the State of Goa, shall continue to be in force till such publication. (7) The Co-operative Tribunal may call for and examine the record of any proceeding in which an appeal lies to it, for the purposes of satisfying itself as to the legality or propriety of any decision or order passed. If in any case, it appears to the Co-operative Tribunal that any such decision or order should be modified, annulled or reversed, the Co-operative Tribunal may pass such order thereon as it may deem just. (8) Where an appeal or application is made to the Co-operative Tribunal under this Act, it may, in order to prevent the ends of justice being defeated, make such interlocutory orders pending the decision of the appeal or application, as the case may be, as may appear to it to be just and convenient, or such orders as may be necessary for the ends of justice, or to prevent the abuse of the process of the Tribunal. (9) An order passed in appeal or in revision under sub-section (6), or in review under section 115 by the Co-operative Tribunal, shall be final and conclusive, and shall not be called in question in any Civil or Revenue Court. (10) (a) The President of the Goa, Daman and Diu Co-operative Tribunal functioning immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be the President of the Goa Co-operative Tribunal constituted for the purpose of this Act; and all appeals and other proceedings pending before the said Goa, Daman and Diu Co-operative Tribunal shall be heard and disposed of by the Co-operative Tribunal constituted under this Act from the stage they reached before such commencement. (b) Anything done or any action taken including any orders passed or regulations made by the said Goa, Daman and Diu Co-operative Tribunal, shall be deemed to have been done or taken by the Co-operative Tribunal constituted under this Act and shall continue in operation until duly modified or annulled. (c) Any reference to the said Goa, Daman and Diu Co-operative Tribunal in any law or instrument, for the time being in force, shall, with effect from the commencement of this Act, be construed as a reference to the Co-operative Tribunal constituted under this Act. Explanation.— The Co-operative Tribunal hearing an appeal under this Act shall exercise all the powers conferred upon an Appellate Court by section 97 and Order XLI in the First Schedule of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908).