law: Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 1984 
  36. Holding of office
  
  in cooperative society.-
  Notwithstanding any
  
  thing contained in this Act, no person shall be eligible to hold, at the same
  
  time, office of a president or chairman or vice-president or vice-chairman on
  
  the board of more than one multi-State cooperative society:
  Provided
  
  that  
  
  any person holding, at the commencement of this Act, the office of a president
  
  or chairman or vice-president or vice-chairman in more than one multi-State
  
  cooperative society shall, within three months from such commencement by notice
  
  in writing signed by him, intimate the name of the multi-State cooperative
  
  society in which he wishes to serve and thereupon his office in the other
  
  multi-State cooperative society in which he does not wish to serve shall become
  
  vacant:
  Provided
  
  further that  
  
  in default of such intimation within the period referred to in the preceding
  
  proviso, his offices in all the multi-State cooperative societies shall, at the
  
  expiration of the period aforesaid, become vacant.