law: Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 1984 
  34. Disqualification
  
  for a member of a board.- 
  No member of any
  
  multi-state cooperative society or nominee of a member-society on a national
  
  cooperative society shall be eligible for being chosen as, or for being, a
  
  member of the board of such multi-State cooperative society or national
  
  cooperative society or of any other cooperative society to which the
  
  multi-State cooperative society is affiliated. if such member -
  a.     
  
    has
  
  been adjudged by a competent court to be insolvent or of unsound mind;
  b.    
  
    is
  
  concerned or participates in the profits of any contract with the society;
  c.     
  
    has
  
  been convicted for an offence involving moral turpitude;
  d.    
  
    holds
  
  any office or place of profit under the society;
  Provided that  the Chief Executive
  
  or such full-time employee of the society as may be notified by the Central
  
  Government from time to time or a person elected by the employees of such
  
  society to represent them on the Board of such society shall be eligible for
  
  being chosen as, or for being, a member of such board;
  a.     
  
  
  b.     
  
  
  c.     
  
  
  d.     
  
  
  e.     
  
    has
  
  been a member of the society for less than twelve months immediately preceding
  
  the date of such election or appointment;
  f.     
  
    has
  
  interest in any business of the kind carried on by the society of which he is a
  
  member;
  g.    
  
    has
  
  taken loan or goods on credit from the society of which he is a member, or is
  
  otherwise indebted to such society and after the receipt of a notice of default
  
  issued to him by such society, has defaulted -
               
  
   i.        
  
    in
  
  repayment of such loan or debt or in payment of the price of the good taken on
  
  credit, as the case may be, within the date fixed for such repayment or payment
  
  or where such date is extended, which in no case shall exceed six months,
  
  within the date so extended, or
              
  
   ii.        
  
    when
  
  such loan or debt or the price of goods taken on credit is to be paid in
  
  installments, in payment of any installment, and the amount in default or any
  
  part there of has remained unpaid on the expiry of six months from the date of
  
  such default;
  Provided that  a member of the
  
  board who had ceased to hold office as such under this clause shall not be
  
  eligible, for a period of one year, from the date on which he ceased to hold
  
  office, for reelection as a member of the board of the multi-State cooperative
  
  society of which he was a member or for election to the board of any other
  
  multi-State cooperative society;
  a.     
  
  
  b.     
  
  
  c.     
  
  
  d.     
  
  
  e.     
  
  
  f.     
  
  
  g.     
  
  
  h.     
  
    is
  
  a person against whom any amount due under a degree, decision or order is
  
  pending recovery under this Act;
  i.      
  
    is
  
  retained or employed as a legal practitioner on behalf of or against the
  
  multi-State cooperative society, or on behalf of or against any other
  
  multi-State cooperative society which is a member of the former society.
  Explanation -  For the purposes of
  
  this clause "legal practitioner" has the same meaning as in clause
  
  (i) of sub-section (1) of Section 2 of the Advocates Act, 1961;
  a.      
  
  
  b.      
  
  
  c.      
  
  
  d.      
  
  
  e.      
  
  
  f.      
  
  
  g.      
  
  
  h.      
  
  
  i.      
  
  
  j.      
  
    has
  
  been convicted for any offence under this Act.