Bihar Cooperative Societies Rules, 1959 - Cooperative Department ...

General Meeting.
1 [20. (1) General Meeting. – The General Meeting of a registered society
shall be of the following kinds :-
(a) Preliminary General Meeting.
(b) Annual General Meeting.
(c) Extraordinary General Meeting.
(d) Special General Meeting.
(2) Preliminary General Meeting – (a) Within a period of ninety days
from the date of the registration of a Cooperative Society or within such extended
period as may be permitted in writing by the Registrar, the society shall hold its
first Preliminary General Meeting wherein only such persons, who have signed the
application for registration of the society: shall be entitled to participate.
(b) For the purposes of the meeting referred to in clause (a) at least
fifteen days notice mentioning the date, time place and agenda of the meeting
shall be issued by the Organiser of the Society.
(c) Where the Organiser is not available to convene the meeting or he
fails to convene the meeting as aforesaid, it shall be convened by the registrar of
any person authorised by him by a general or special order.
(d) At the Preliminary General Meeting the following business shall be
transacted in the order given below.
(i) Election of the person to preside over the meeting (election to be
held by show of hands.
(ii) Adoption of the registered by-laws.
(iii) Consideration of the statement of accounts since the organisation of
the society to the date of the meeting.
(iv) Fixation of maximum liability to be incurred by the society till the
annual General Meeting of the society is not held.
(v) Any other matter which may be necessary in view of the bye-law of
the society, and
(vi) Constitution of the Managing Committee in accordance with the Act,
Rules, and bye-laws of the society.
(e) subject to such instruction as may be issued by the Registrar, the
election of the members of the Managing Committee and the Office-bearers of the
society shall be conducted by the person presiding the first General Meeting in
such manner as may be conducive to fair election and all points of order relating to
the election shall be decided by him.
1. subs. By Letter No. 14/ legal 51/29 dated 2.9.89
(3) Annual General Meeting – The Managing Committee of a
registered society shall within the grace period after the close of the Cooperative
year convene the Annual General Meeting at which all items of business as
prescribed in the bye-laws of the society except the election of the members of the
Managing committee, Officer- bearers thereof and the delegates of the Society,
shall be transacted:
Provided that if the audit report is not ready, the consideration of it by
the General Meeting and the disposal of profits shall be held over till an
extraordinary General Meeting is convened for the said purpose or till the next
Annual General Meeting.