Section 98
Recovery of sums due to Government.
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) All sums due from a multi-State co-operative
society, or from an officer or member or past member of a multi-State co-operative society, to the Central
Government or a State Government, including any cost awarded to the Central Government or the State
Government, as the case may be, under any provision of this Act, may, on a certificate issued by the
Central Registrar in this behalf, be recovered in the same manner as arrears of land revenue as first charge
on the assets of such society or officer or member, as the case may be.
(2) Sums due from a multi-State co-operative society to the Central Government or a State Government and recoverable under sub-section (1) may be recovered firstly from the property of the society and secondly from the members, past members or the estates of deceased members, subject to the limit of their liability:
Provided that the liability of past members and the estate of deceased members shall in all cases be subject to the provisions of section 37.
(2) Sums due from a multi-State co-operative society to the Central Government or a State Government and recoverable under sub-section (1) may be recovered firstly from the property of the society and secondly from the members, past members or the estates of deceased members, subject to the limit of their liability:
Provided that the liability of past members and the estate of deceased members shall in all cases be subject to the provisions of section 37.