Added by Act No.7 of 2003.

⁵⁹ Substituted with marginal heading by Act No.7 of 2003.

Audit. Recovery of dues. Meetings. Resignation.

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sent by registered post or tendered in person to the authority designated and it shall be processed and disposed of in the manner prescribed.]

33. (1) The Government may by notification appoint a Commissioner to exercise general control and superintendence over the competent authorities and the District Collectors, in performance of their functions under this Act or the rules made thereunder.

1. (2) The powers to be exercised and the functions to be performed by the Commissioner shall be such as may be prescribed. 34. The Government may by notification appoint an officer or officers 60[or the outgoing President or Chairman of the farmers‟ organization whose performance is adjudged as good, as prescribed] to exercise the powers and perform

is duly constituted or reconstituted and such managing committee assumes office under the provisions of this Act.

35. All permissions, orders, decisions, notices and other

documents of the farmers‟ organisation shall be

authenticated, by the signature of the chairman or president of the farmers‟ organisation or any other member of the managing committee, authorised by the managing committee in this behalf.

36. No acts or proceedings of the managing committee of

a farmers‟ organisation shall be invalid by reason only of the existence of any vacancy in, or defect in the constitution of, the said committee.

⁶⁰ Inserted by Act No.7 of 2003.

Appointment of a Commissioner. Transitional arrangements. Authentication of orders and documents of the Farmers‟ Organisation. Acts not to be invalidated by informality or vacancy etc.

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37. (1) The farmers‟ organisation shall keep their funds in a Nationalised Bank or a Co-operative Bank, namely a Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society or the District Cooperative Central Bank or the Telangana State Co-operative Central Bank.

1. (2) The funds shall be applied towards meeting of the expenses incurred by the managing committee of the concerned farmers‟ organisation in the administration of this Act and for no other purpose. 38. (1) The managing committee of the farmers‟ organisation shall maintain a sinking fund for the repayment of moneys borrowed and shall pay every year into the sinking fund such sum as may be sufficient for repayment within the period fixed of all moneys so borrowed.
2. (2) The sinking fund or any part thereof shall be applied in or towards, the discharge of the loan for which such fund was created, and until such loan is wholly discharged, it shall not be applied for any other purpose. 39. The 61[financial sub-committee] of a farmers‟ organisation shall prepare in such form in every financial year a budget in respect of the financial year next, showing the estimated receipts and expenditure of the committee

and shall place before the general body of the farmers‟

organisation for its approval as may be prescribed.

40. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall be, instituted against any person for anything which is, in good faith, done or intended to be done under this Act or under the rules made thereunder.

⁶¹ Substituted by Act No.7 of 2003.

Deposit and administration of the funds Sinking Fund. Budget. Protection of acts done in good faith.

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41. (1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act or as to the first constitution or reconstitution of any farmers‟ organisation after the commencement of this Act, the Government as the occasion may require, by order published in the Telangana Gazette, do anything which appears to them necessary for removing the authority.

1. (2) All orders made under sub section (1) shall as soon as may be, after they are made, be placed on the table of

the Legislature of the State and shall be subject to such

modifications by way of amendments or repeal as the Legislature may make either in the same session or in the next session.

63[41-A. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, it shall be competent for the Government or as the case may be, the Commissioner or designated officers not below the rank of a Superintending Engineer, either on its own accord or on application made, issue such directions, as they may consider necessary, to any farmers‟ organisation for the proper working of the said organisation and such farmers‟ organisation shall implement those directions for effective functioning of the said organisation.

1. (2) If in the opinion of the Government or, as the case may be, the Commissioner or the officers as designated in sub-section (1), the President or Vice-President or Chairman or Vice-Chairman or the members of the managing committee of a farmers‟ organization,-
   • (i) Wilfully omitted or refused to carry out the directions of the Government or the Commissioner or the 01.06.2016.

⁶² Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated