Section 90:
Powers of liquidator.
(1) Subject to any rules made in this behalf, the whole of the assets of a
multi-State co-operative society in respect of which an order for winding up has been made, shall vest in
the liquidator appointed under section 89 from the date on which the order takes effect and the liquidator
shall have power to realise such assets by sale or otherwise.
(2) Such liquidator shall also have power, subject to the control of the Central Registrar--
(a) to institute and defend suits and other legal proceedings on behalf of the multi-State cooperative
society by the name of his office;
(b) to determine from time to time the contribution (including debts due and costs of liquidation)
to be made or remaining to be made by the members or past members or by the estates or nominees,
heirs or legal representatives of the deceased members or by any officers or former officers, to the
assets of the multi-State co-operative society;
(c) to investigate all claims against the multi-State co-operative society and subject to the
provisions of this Act, to decide questions of priority arising between claimants;
(d) to pay claims against the multi-State co-operative society, including interest up to the date of
winding up according to their respective priorities, if any, in full or rateably, as the assets of the
society may permit; and the surplus, if any, remaining after payment of the claims being applied in
payment of interest from the date of such order or winding up at a rate fixed by him but not exceeding
the contract rate in any case;
(e) to determine by what persons and in what proportions the costs of the liquidation are to be
borne;
(f) to determine whether any person is a member, past member or nominee of a deceased
member;
(g) to give such directions in regard to the collection and distribution of the assets of the multiState
co-operative society as may appear to him to be necessary for winding up the affairs of that
society;
(h) to carry on the business of the multi-State co-operative society so far as may be necessary for
the beneficial winding up of the same;
(i) to make any compromise or arrangement with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors or
having or alleging to have any claim, present or future, whereby the multi-State co-operative society
may be rendered liable;
(j) to make any compromise or arrangement with any person between whom and the multi-State
co-operative society there exists any dispute and to refer any such dispute for decision;
(k) after consulting the members of the multi-State co-operative society, to dispose of the surplus,
if any, remaining after paying the claims against the society, in such manner as may be prescribed;
(l) to compromise all calls or liabilities to calls and debts and liabilities capable of resulting in
debts, and all claims, present or future, certain or contingent, subsisting or alleged to be subsisting
between the multi-State co-operative society and a contributory or other debtor or person
apprehending liability to the multi-State co-operative society and all questions in any way relating to
or affecting the assets or the winding up of the society on such terms as may be agreed and take any
security for the discharge of any such call, liability, debt or claim and give a complete discharge in
respect thereof.
(3) When the affairs of a multi-State co-operative society have been wound up, the liquidator shall
make a report to the Central Registrar and deposit the records of the society in such place as the Central
Registrar may direct.