Section 44

(a) No person who has been expelled from the membership of a co-operative society under Clause (b) of Rule 51 shall be admitted as a member of that society before lapse of a period of two years from the date the order of expulsion takes effect, as provided in Sub-section (5) of Section 27. (b) No individual person, shall be admitted as an ordinary member in- (i) an Apex Society or Central Bank; or (ii) a Central Society which includes any other Central Society in its ordinary membership. (c) If a society mentioned in Sub-rule (b) has on the date of coming into force of the Act, individuals as its ordinary members, the society shall within a period of one year from such date or such further period as the Registrar may, for reasons to be recorded, allow for any co-operative society, adjust its membership to any other class mentioned in Sub-section (1) of Section 18, in accordance with the provisions of the bye-laws of the society.