Section 20(1) in The Goa Co-operative Societies Act, 2001
(1)If the Registrar is satisfied that any society is registered on misrepresentation made by applicants, or where the work of the society is completed or exhausted or the purposes for which the society has been registered are not served, he may, after giving an opportunity of being heard to the chief promoter, the Board of Directors and the members of the society, de-register the society:Provided that, where the number of members of the society is so large and it is not possible to ascertain the correct addresses of all such members from the records in the office of the Registrar and, in the opinion of the Registrar it is not practicable to serve a notice of hearing on each such individual member, a public notice of the proceedings of de-registration shall be given in the prescribed manner and such notice shall be deemed to be notice to all the members of the society including the chief promoter and the members of the Board of Directors of the society, and no proceedings in respect of the de-registration of the society shall be called in question in any court merely on the ground that individual notice is not served on any such member.
