Article 243ZQ

Offences and Penalties

[243.ZQ. (1) The Legislature of a State may, by law, make provisions for the Offences and offences relating to the co-operative societies and penalties for such offences.

(2) A law made bythe Legislature of a State under clause (1) shall include the commission of the following act or omission as offences, namely:-

(a) a co-operative society or an officer or member thereof wiifully makes a false return or furnishes false infomation, or any person wilfully not furnishes any infomation required from him by a person authorised in this behalf under the provisions ofthe State Act;

(b) any person wilfully or without any reasonable excuse disobeys any summons, requisition or lawful written order issued under the provisions of the State Act;

(c) any employer who, without sufflcient cause, fails to pay to a co-operative society amount deducted by him from its employee within a period of fourteen days from the date on which such deduction is made;

(d) any officer or custodian who wilfully fails to handover custody of books, accounts, documents, records, cash, security and other property belonging to a co-operative society of which he is an ofñcer or custodian, to an authorised person; and

(e) whoever. before, during or after the election of members of the board or bearers, adopts any corrupt practice.]*

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* Ins. by the Constitution (Ninety-seventh Amendment) Act, 2011, s. 4