Section 2 in THE KERALA CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2021
2. Amendment of section 2.—In section 2 of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969
(21 of 1969) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),—(i)after clause (ab), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—“(ac) “Anand Pattern Milk Co-operative Society” means a Primary DairyCo-operative Society, otherwise known as 'Ksheerolpadaka Sahakarana Sangam', registeredon or after the 1st day of January 1980, and functioning as per the modelbye-laws of Anand Pattern, with the principal objectives of procurement and marketing of milkand milk products and pouring marketable surplus of milk to the RegionalCo-operative Milk Producers' Union and for providing inputs to the dairy farmers, within thearea of operation of the society ;”;(ii)for clause (ia), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—“(ia) “District Co-operative Bank” means a central society having jurisdictionover one revenue district and having Primary Agricultural Credit Societies and Urban Co-operative Banks as its members and the principal object of which is to raise funds to be lentto its members, including nominal or associate members, which existed under this Actimmediately before the passing of the orders by the Registrar under sub-section (1) orsub-section (1)(a) of section 74H and has ceased to exist by virtue of such orders:Provided that if the general body of a District Co-operative Bank has not passed theresolution under section 14A, it shall continue as such for a period of two years from the dateof commencement of the Kerala Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Act, 2021 or till theRegistrar completes the process under clauses (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 74H,whichever is earlier;”;(iii)after clause (p), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:—“(pa) “Recruitment Committees” means the committees constituted undersection 80BB of this Act;(pb)“Regional Co-operative Milk Producers' Union” is a central society havingAnand Pattern Primary Dairy Co-operative Societies as their members with the principalobjective of undertaking procurement, processing and marketing of milk and milk products andto provide technical, financial and production input assistance to their member societies anddairy farmers within the area of operation comprising two or more revenue districts;”.
