Section 9
Multi-State co-operative society to be body corporate.
The Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to co-operative societies, with objects not confined to one State and serving the interests of members in more than one State, to facilitate the voluntary formation and democratic functioning of co-operative s as peoples institutions based on self-help and mutual aid and to enable them to promote their economic and social betterment and to provide functional autonomy and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) The registration of a multi-State cooperative
society shall render it a body corporate by the name under which it is registered having
perpetual succession and a common seal, and with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both
movable and immovable, enter into contract, institute and defend suits and other legal proceedings and to
do all things necessary for the purpose for which it is constituted, and shall, by the said name, sue or be
sued.
(2) All transactions entered into in good faith prior to the registration of a multi-State co-operative society shall be deemed to be its transactions after registration for furtherance of the objects of its registration.
(2) All transactions entered into in good faith prior to the registration of a multi-State co-operative society shall be deemed to be its transactions after registration for furtherance of the objects of its registration.