The Maharashtra Co-operative Sugar Factories under erection (Postponement of Elections) Act, 1974
The Maharashtra Co-operative Sugar Factories under erection (Postponement of Elections) Act, 1974
This historical Act temporarily regulated the leadership and internal elections of nine specific co-operative sugar factories under construction in Maharashtra between 1974 and 1975. It suspended all committee elections, extended the terms of active administrators, and empowered the state government to replace management teams in the public interest. This legislation applied directly to the designated under-erection factory projects listed in its official schedule. It mattered because it ensured stable, uninterrupted management during the critical phase of building these vital industrial sugar plants, preventing disruptive leadership transitions and ensuring the projects reached completion before new democratic elections were safely organized.
- 1. Short title and commencement.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Postponement of elections committees of Co-operative Sugar Factories under erection.
- 4. Power to Co-opt
- 5. Power of removal of committee or member thereof.
- 6. Validation of acts of committees and of members and administrators whose term of office stands extended under section 3.
- 7. Arrangements to be made to constitute new committees before expiry of extended term of existing committees and administrators.
- 8. Application of Mah. XXIV of 1961.
- 9. Removal of difficulties.
- 10. Repeal of Mah. Ord. XX of 1974 and saving.
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