law: Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 1984 
  3. Definitions.- 
  In this Act, unless
  
  the context otherwise requires:
  a.     
  
    "board"
  
  means the board of directors or the governing body of a multi-State cooperative
  
  society by whatever name called, to which the direction and control of the
  
  management of the affairs of the society is entrusted;
  b.    
  
    "bye-laws"
  
  means the bye-laws for the time being in force which have been duly registered
  
  under this Act and includes amendments thereto which have been duly registered
  
  under this Act;
  c.     
  
    "Central
  
  Registrar" means the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies appointed
  
  under sub-section (1) of section 4 and includes any officer empowered to
  
  exercise the powers of the Central Registrar under sub-section (2) of that
  
  section;
  d.    
  
    "Chief
  
  Executive" means a Chief Executive of a multi-State cooperative society
  
  appointed under section 44;
  e.     
  
    "cooperative
  
  bank" means a multi-State cooperative society which undertakes banking
  
  business;
  f.     
  
    "cooperative
  
  principles" means the cooperative principles specified in the First
  
  Schedule;
  g.    
  
    "cooperative
  
  society" means a society registered or deemed to be registered under any
  
  law relating to cooperative societies for the time being in force in any State;
  h.     
  
    "cooperative
  
  year", in relation to any multi-State cooperative society or class of such
  
  societies, means the year ending on the 30th day of June and where the accounts
  
  of such society or class of such societies are, with the previous sanction of
  
  the Central Registrar, balanced on any other day, the year ending on such day;
  i.      
  
    "Deposit
  
  Insurance Corporation" means the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee
  
  Corporation established under section 3 of the Deposit Insurance Corporation
  
  Act, 1961;
  j.      
  
    "member"
  
  means a person joining in the application for the registration of a multi-State
  
  cooperative Society and includes a person admitted to membership after such
  
  registration in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the rules and the
  
  bye-laws;
  k.     
  
    "multi-State
  
  cooperative society" means a society registered or deemed to be registered
  
  under this Act and includes a national cooperative society;
  l.      
  
    "multi-State
  
  cooperative society with limited liability" means a society having the
  
  liability of its members limited by its bye-laws to the amount, if any, unpaid
  
  on the shares respectively, held by them or to such amount as they may,
  
  respectively, there-by undertake to contribute to the assets of the society, in
  
  the event of its being wound up;
  m.   
  
    "national
  
  cooperative society" means a multi-State cooperative society specified in
  
  the Second Schedule;
  n.     
  
    "notification"
  
  means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
  o.    
  
    "officer"
  
  means a president, vice-president, chairman, vice-chairman, managing director,
  
  secretary, manager, member of a board, treasurer, liquidator, an administrator
  
  appointed under section 48 and includes any other person empowered under this
  
  Act or the rules or the bye-laws to give directions in regard to the business
  
  of multi-state cooperative society;
  p.    
  
    "Prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by rules;
  q.    
  
    "Reserve
  
  Bank" means the Reserve Banks of India constituted under the Reserve Bank
  
  of India Act, 1934;
  r.      
  
    "rules"
  
  means the rules made under this Act,