law: Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 1984 
  Chapter IV: Direction
  
  and Management of Multi-State Cooperative Societies 
  29. General body, its
  
  constitution, powers and functions.- 
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    The
  
  general body of a multi-State cooperative society shall consist of all the
  
  members of such society;
  Provided that  where the bye-laws
  
  of a multi-State cooperative society provide for the constitution of a smaller
  
  body consisting of delegates of members of the society elected or selected in
  
  accordance with such byelaws, that smaller body shall exercise such powers of the
  
  general body as may be prescribed or as may be specified in the bye-laws of the
  
  society.
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    Subject
  
  to the provisions of this Act, the rules and the bye-laws, the ultimate
  
  authority of a multi-State cooperative society shall vest in the general body
  
  of its members:
  Provided that  nothing contained in
  
  this sub-section shall affect the exercise by the board or any officer of a
  
  multi-State cooperative society of any power conferred on such board or such
  
  officer by this Act or the rules or the bye-laws.
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    Where
  
  in any meeting of the general body or the board of a multi-State cooperative
  
  society, a cooperative society or another multi-State cooperative society is to
  
  be represented, such cooperative society or other multi-State cooperative
  
  society shall be represented in such meeting only through the Chairman or the
  
  Chief Executive of such cooperative society or other multi-State cooperative
  
  society, as the case may be, and where there is no board or such cooperative
  
  society or other multi-State cooperative society, for whatever reasons, through
  
  the administrator, by whatever name called, of such cooperative society or
  
  other multi-State cooperative society.