Disqualification for membership of committee.

(1) No person shall be eligible for being chosen as, and for being, a member of the committee, if he – (a) is such near relative of such paid employee of the society or its financing bank as may be prescribed; (b) is in default in the payment of any amount due in cash or kind to the society or any other society or stood as guarantor Society/Co-executants to any member who committed default, for said period as may be prescribed or is a delegate of a society which is defunct or which is in default as aforesaid; (c) is a person against whom any amount due under a decree, decision, award or order is pending recovery under this Act; (d) acquires any interest in any subsisting contract made with or work being done for, the society, except as otherwise prescribed; (e) is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court, a deaf-mute or a leper; (f) is appearing as legal practitioner on behalf of or against the society; (g) is carrying on business of such kind as the Registrar may, by general or special order, declare to be a business which is in conflict with the objects, or interests of the society; (h) has been sentenced to imprisonment for an offence under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955. (i) is a Village Administrative Officer or an employee of the State or Central Government or an employee of any institution receiving aid from the funds of the State or Central Government or an employee of any undertaking concerned and controlled by the State or Central Government: Provided that this clause shall not apply for being a member of the committee of any society formed by and for the benefit of the concerned class of the employees specified in this clause; (j) is convicted by a criminal court for an offence involving moral delinquency: Provided that the disqualification under this clause shall subsist for a period of five years from the date of conviction or where he is sentenced to imprisonment while undergoing sentence and for a period of five years from the date of expiration thereof: Provided that any delegate of a society sitting on the committee of any other society, shall cease to be such delegate, if- (i) his delegation is withdrawn; (ii) the committee which elected him as the delegate, has been superseded; (iii) the society of which he is the delegate is defunct or commits default in the payment of any amount due in cash or kind to such other society for the period prescribed; or (iv) the affairs of the society of which he is the delegate are woundup. (1-A). A person having more than two children shall be disqualified for election or for continuing as a member of the Committee: Provided that the birth within the year from the date of commencement of the Andhra Pradesh Co-operative Societies (amendment) Act, 1995 hereinafter in this section referred to as the date of such commencement) of an additional child shall not be taken into consideration for the purposes of this section: Provided further that a person having more than two children (excluding the child if any born within one year from the date of such commencement) shall not be disqualified under this section for so long as the number of children he had on the date of such commencement does not increase: Provided also that the Government may direct that the disqualification in this section shall not apply in respect of person for reasons to be recorded in writing.