Section 455

(1) (a) The number of members on the Committee of Management shall be determined according to the Act, Rules and Bye-laws of the society. A co-operative society shall elect such number of persons on its Committee of Management as may be provided in the Act, Rules and the Bye-laws of the society. (b) A person seeking election to the Committee of Management or a Delegate in the General Body of the society from a particular area or constituency or class of members shall be elected by the members of the General Body of that area/constituency or class of members, as the case may be : Provided that in case of Marketing Society/District Wholesale Consumers Store, individual members and delegate of the society shall separately elect their respective members on the Committee of Management. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in Clause (b) of Sub-rule (1) the members of the Committee of Management of a primary consumers society shall be elected by the members of the General Body, jointly. (3) The Registrar or the authorised officer shall, under provisions of Sub-rule (6) of Rule 450, reserve constituencies/areas for weaker sections and such reservation shall be made to the extent of the seats reserved by rotation in Hindi alphabetical order of the names of constituency/areas from which members of the Committee of Management are to be elected: Provided that the constituencies so reserved shall be allotted to scheduled castes/scheduled tribes, backward classes of citizens and women respectively in Hindi alphabetical order : Provided further that where the first alphabet in the names of more than one constituency is the same, reservation in such cases shall be regulated by the next alphabet in the names of such constituencies. (4) (a) The Committee of Management of Marketing/Processing society shall consist of- (i) ten representatives from member-societies, if the representatives of individual members of the committee are three: Provided that in case the number of representatives of individual members on the committee decreases, the number of representatives of member societies on the committee shall increase to the extent of the decrease of representatives of individual members on the committee; (ii) such number of representatives, from individual members as are laid down in Sub-rule (5) of this rule but not more than three; (iii) two nominees of the State Government if the State Government is a share-