Chapter XII MISCELLANEOUS

Cognizance of offence. No court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the First Class shall try any offence under this Act.

No complaint regarding offences under section 68 shall be instituted unless it is approved by the Registrar. Provided that no approval of the Registrar shall be necessary for filing criminal complaint against the delinquents for alleged misappropriation or embezzlement of funds of a co-operative detected during course of audit, enquiry or inspection or in the normal course of business of a co-operative.

Protection of action taken in good faith. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Registrar or any person subordinate to him or acting on his authority or the Director of co-operative Audit or any other person subordinate to him acting on his authority or against the new Board of the co-operative or the administrator appointed under section 38 or the Special Officer appointed under section 38A in respect of anything done in good faith or purporting to have been done under this Act.

Power to remove difficulties. If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Government may, by notification and after publication in the Official Gazette, make such provisions or clarification if any as appear to it to be necessary or expedient to remove the difficulty.

(1) The Government may, by notification and after previous publication in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act. (2) Every rule made under this Act shall as soon as may be after it is made be laid before each house of the State legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if before the expiry of the sessions in which it is so laid or the sessions immediately following both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so however that any modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

Savings. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 6 of this Act, where a Co-operative society registered under the Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act 1959 is converted to a Co-operative under this Act, and at the time of such conversion was a party to any proceedings under sections, 63, 64, 65, 69, 70, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 106, 108 or 109 of the Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, 1959 such proceedings shall be continued and finally decided, as if the co-operative society was not converted into a co-operative under this Act and any decree or order or award so passed in such proceedings against any person or a co-operative registered under this Act, shall be executed against such person or such co-operative in accordance with section 101 of the Karnataka Co-operative Societies Act, 1959.