THE  KERALA  STATE  CO-OPERATIVE  AGRICULTURAL  AND  RURAL

  DEVELOPMENT  BANKS  (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1999 [1]

(Act 18 of 1999)

An Act further to amend the Kerala State Co-operative Agricultural and Rural  Development Banks Act, 1984.

            Preamble.-WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Kerala State Co-operative Agricultural and Rural Development Banks Act, 1984, for the purpose hereinafter appearing.

            BE it enacted in the Fiftieth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

            1.  Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Kerala State Co-operative Agricultural and Rural Development Banks (Amendment) Act, 1999.

                        (2) It shall come into force at once.

            2.  Amendment of section 2.- In section 2 of the Kerala State Co-operative Agricultural and Rural Development Banks Act, 1984 (20 of 1984), for clause (i) the following clause shall be substituted, namely;_

                        “(i) “Registrar” means the Registrar of Co-operative Societies appointed under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (21 of 1969), and includes any officer of the Co-operative Department, not below the rank of Joint Registrar, on whom the powers and the functions of the Registrar under this Act, except those under section 5 and section 44, are conferred, by general of special order, by the Government;”.