Section 146(1) in The Gujarat Co-Operative Societies Act, 1961
(1)No person, other than a society registered, or deemed to be registered, under this Act, and a person or his successor in interest of any name or title or under which he traded or carried on business at the date on which this Act comes into force, shall without the sanction of the State Government, function trade or carry on business under any name or title of which the word "co-operative", or its equivalent in any Indian Language, forms part.
