The Maharashtra Specified Co-operative Societies (Postponement of Elections due to drought conditions in the State) Act, 1983
The Maharashtra Specified Co-operative Societies (Postponement of Elections due to drought conditions in the State) Act, 1983
The Maharashtra Specified Co-operative Societies (Postponement of Elections due to drought conditions in the State) Act, 1983 was enacted to temporarily freeze all election proceedings in major co-operative societies across Maharashtra during a severe drought. Applicable to specified co-operatives governed by Section 73G of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, the law legally extended the terms of incumbent managing committees and government-appointed administrators. By halting election campaigning and administrative overhead, the statute ensured that local co-operative leaders and government officers could focus fully on drought relief efforts without administrative disruption or political conflict.
- 1. Short title, commencement and duration
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Postponement of elections of committees of specified societies
- 4. Power to co-opt
- 5. Constitution of provisional committees
- 6. Validation of acts of committees and of members and administrators whose term of office stands extended under section
- 7. Application of Mah. XXIV of
- 8. Removal of difficulties
- 9. Repeal of Mah. Ord. VIII of 1983 and saving
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