Baina.
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(2) Any Judge, or Judges, of the Supreme Court as the Chief Justice may direct, may consider and determine any question of law so referred and the ruling given on such question shall be final and conclusive.
PART X.
RULES.
51. (1) The Governor in Council may make all such rules sa may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out or giving effect to the principles and provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by sub-section (1), such rules may-
(a) prescribe the forms to be used and the conditions to be complied with in applying for the registration of a society and the procedure in the matter of such applica- tions:
(b) prescribe the conditions to be complied with by persons applying for admission or admitted as members, and provide for the election and admission of members from time to time, and the payment to be made and interest to be acquired before exercising rights of membership;
(c) subject to the provisions of section 27 of this Ordinance, prescribe the maximum number of shares or partion of the capital of a registered society which may be held by a member;
(d) prescribe the extent to which a registered society may limit the number of its members;
(e) provide for the withdrawal and expulsion
of members and for payments to be made to members who withdraw or are expelled, and for the liabilities of past members:
() provide for general meetings of the mem- bers and for the procedure at such meetings and the powers to be exercised by such meetings;
(g) provide for the appointment, suspension and removal of the members of the committee and other officers, and for the procedure at meetings of the committee, and for the powers to be exercised and the duties to he performed by the committee and other officers;
(h) prescribe the matters in respect of which
a society may or shall make by-laws and for the procedure to be followed in making, altering and rescinding by-laws, and the conditions to be satisfied prior to such making, alteration or rescission;
(i) regulate the manner in which funds ray be raised by means of shares or debentures or otherwise;
(j) prescribe the conditions to be observed by a registered acciety applying for financial assistance from Government;
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(A) prescribe the payments to be made, the conditions to be complied with, and the forms of the bonds, instruments or other documents to be executed, by members applying for loans or cash credits, the period for which loans may be made or credits granted, and the maximum amount which may be lent and the maximum credit which may be allowed to individual members with or without the consent of the Registrar;
(1) provide for the mode in which the value of a deceased member's interest shall be ascertained, aud for the nomination of a person to whom such interest may be paid or transferred;
(m) provide for the mode in which the value of the interest of a inember who has become of unsound mind snd incapable of managing himself or his affairs shall be ascertained and for the nomination of any person to whom such interest may be paid or transferred;
(n) provide for the formation and the main- tenance of reserve funds, and the objects to which such fonds may be applied, and for the investiment of any funds under the control of any registered society:
(o) prescribe the conditions under which pro- fits may be distributed to the members of a society with unlimited liability and the maximum rate of dividend which may be paid by societies;
(p) prescribe the accounts and books to be kept by a registered society, and for the periodical publication of a balance sheet showing the assets and liabilities of a registered society;
(g) provide for the audit of the accounts of registered societies and for the charges, if any, to be made for such audit and provide for the levy of contributions from all or any registered societies to a fund to be used for the audit and supervision of existing societies and co-operative propaganda and prescribe for the administration of such a fund:
(r) prescribe the returns to be submitted by registered societics to the Registrar, and the persons by whom and the form in which the same are to be made;
(a) provide for the persons by whom, and the form in which, copies of entries in bocks of registered societies may be certified;
() provide for the formation and maintenance
of a register of members, and, where the liability of members
is limited by shares, of a register of shares;
(a) provide for the inspection of documents and registers at the Registrar's office and the fees to be paid therefor and for the issue of copies of such documents or registers;
(u) prescribe the manner in which any ques- tion as to the breach of any by-law or contract relating to the disposal of produce to or through a society, may be determined, and the manner in which the liquidated damages for any such breach may be ascertained or assessed;