Section 22
Section 22 of DCS Act 2003. No person shall be admitted as member of a co-operative society except the following, namely - (a) an individual competent to contract under section 11 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872);
(1) No person shall be admitted as member of a co-operative society except the following, namely - (a) an individual competent to contract under section 11 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872);
(b) any other co-operative society;
(c) the Government;
(d) a firm, a joint stock company, or any other body corporate constituted under any law; and (e) such class or classes of persons or association of persons as may be notified by the Government in this behalf :
Provided that the provisions of clause (a) shall not apply to an individual seeking admission to a co-operative society exclusively formed for the benefit of students of a school or college :
Provided further that no individual shall be eligible for admission as a member of any financing bank or federal co-operative society except as provided in clause (m) of section 2.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the Government may, having regard to the fact that the interest of any person or class of persons conflicts or is likely to conflict with the objects of any co-operative society or class of co-operative societies by general or special order, published in the official Gazette, declare that any person or class of persons engaged in or carrying on any profession, business or employment shall be disqualified from being admitted, or for continuing as member or shall be eligible for membership only to a limited extent of any specified co-operative society or class of co-operative societies, so long as such person is or such persons are engaged in or carrying on that profession, business or employment, as the case may be. Nominal or associate or joint member. Ind
Section 22, DCS Act 2003 (Act 149 of 2005).
Cross-references
Extracted from the operative text of the enactments themselves. Every destination below exists in our corpus.
Questions about Section 22
How do I find court cases under Section 22 of the DCS Act 2003?
In judgments and charge sheets this section is written several ways, and each form finds a different set of orders. These search the full text of every order eCourtsIndia holds, best matches first: DCS Act 2003 22, section 22 DCS Act 2003, section 22 of the DCS Act 2003. Each opens the full list of orders on eCourtsIndia, where it can be narrowed by court, year and outcome.
What should I read with Section 22 of the DCS Act 2003, and has it changed?
Its own text turns on section 2, so none of them can safely be read on its own. 1 other provision in this corpus refers back to it.
When was the DCS Act 2003 enacted?
DCS Act 2003 was enacted in 2005 as Act 149 of 2005. India Code records no commencement date for it. It is in force as at the date shown on this page.
Other sections of this Act
Source and method. Compiled from the enactments of Parliament and of the State legislatures as published on India Code, and republished together with commentary and other original matter under section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Structured, cross-referenced and maintained by eCourtsIndia. Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/4c99366d-b957-4634-8735-6142d42775da.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/7166f74d-c446-46c6-8fc8-31f498cb3330/content). This page is not a substitute for legal advice.