Registrar, Additional Registrars, Joint Registrars, Deputy Registrars and Assistant Registrars

(1) The Government may appoint an officer of the Government to be the Registrar of Co-operatives for the State. (2) The Government may also appoint as many officers of the Government as Additional Registrars, Joint Registrars, Deputy Registrars and Assistant Registrars of Co-operatives as it thinks fit for assisting the Registrar. (3) The Government may, by general or special order, confer all or any of the powers of the Registrar under this Act on the Additional Registrar, Joint Registrar, Deputy Registrar or Assistant Registrar of Co-operatives. In section 5 of the principal Act in sub-section (3) for the words “along with the copy of the bye-laws shall also be sent to the Federal Co-operative” the words “along with the copy of the bye-laws and details of promoters shall also be sent to the Federal Co-operative within a period of sixty days from the date of registration” shall be substituted. In the Principal Act, in section 17, after second proviso, the following shall be inserted, namely:- “Provided also that no Souharda Co-operative societies undertaking credit activities shall not utilize the mobilized deposit for non-credit activities other than lending and investments.”