The registration of a society shall render it a body corporate by the name under which it is registered, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and with power to hold property, to enter into contracts, to institute and defend suits and other legal proceedings and to do all things necessary for the purposes of its constitution.
Co Operative Societies Act 1912
Section 11 of Cooperative Societies Act - Amendment of the by-laws of a registered society
Section 12 of Cooperative Societies Act - Member not to exercise rights till due payment made
Section 13 of Cooperative Societies Act - Votes of members
Section 14 of Cooperative Societies Act - Restrictions on transfer of share or interest
Section 15 of Cooperative Societies Act - Address of societies
Section16 of Cooperative Societies Act - Copy of Act, rules and by-laws to be open to inspection
Section 17 of Cooperative Societies Act - Audit
Section 18 of Cooperative Societies Act - Societies to be bodies corporate
Section 19 of Cooperative Societies Act - Prior claim of society