Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) "State" means the State of Jharkhand; (b) "Board" means the Board of Directors of a Cooperative Society; (c) "Bye-laws"means the bye-laws of a registered Cooperative Society; (d) "Chief executive" means an individual who, subject to the superintendence, control and direction of the board, has been entrusted with the management of the affairs of a Cooperative Society; (e) "Cooperative society" means an organisation registered or deemed to be registered under this Act; (f) "Cooperative basis" means the Cooperative principles enumerated in section 3 of this Act; (g) "Primary Cooperative Society" means a Cooperative Society whose member is not a Cooperative Society; (h) "Central Cooperative Society" means a Cooperative Society which is different from Federation and Union and which has any other Cooperative Society, and, if the bye-laws so provide, individuals as its members; (i) "Federation"means a Federation constituted under sub-section (2) of section 14 of this Act; (j) "Union" means as Union Constituted under sub-section (1) of section 14 of this Act; (k) "General Body" means (i) in relation to a Primary Cooperative Society, all the members of that Cooperative Society, (ii) in relation to a Central Cooperative Society, delegates of all the member Cooperative Societies, and, if the bye-laws so provide, individual members, (iii) in relation to a Federation the delegates of all member Cooperative Societies, (iv) in relation to the Union, the delegates of all the member Cooperative Federations and Cooperative Societies; (I) "general meeting" means a meeting of the general body of a Cooperative Society registered under this Act; (m) "Office-bearer"means a person elected or appointed by a Cooperative Society to any office of such Cooperative Society; (n) "Registrar" means the Registrar of Self-Supporting Cooperative Societies appointed under section 8 of this Act and includes any other person on whom all or any of the powers of the Registrar under this Act are conferred; (o) "family" means husband, wife and their unmarried daughters and minor sons; (p) "Cooperative tribunal" means a tribunal constituted under section 39 of this Act. Subsection (a) of Section 2 of the Jharkhand Self-Supporting Co-operative Societies Act, 1996 shall be substituted by the following, namely– (b) “Board” means Board of Directors or Governing Body or Managing Committee by whatever name it is called to which the direction and control of the management of the affairs of a Co- operative Society is entrusted to; 4. Insertion after subsection (q) of section 2 of the Act 2 of 1996 – The following subsection (r) shall be added after the subsection (q) of subsection 2 of the Jharkhand Co-operative Act, 1996 namely “Functional Directors” means functional executive directors of the society specified as per rules or Bye-laws of that co-operative society;