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Akalank's The Delhi Co-operative Societies Act, 2003 (Delhi Act No. 3 of 2004) — with The Delhi Co-operative Societies Rules, 2007 and The Delhi Cooperative Tribunal Rules, 2006, published by Akalank Publications in its Code Book of Statutes / NCT Delhi Law Series, Edition 2026. English.

Co-operative society work in Delhi is bye-law work. A dispute in a group housing society — over membership, over allotment, over the transfer of a flat, over an election to the managing committee — is decided by reading the Act, then the Rules, then the society's own bye-laws, and then by taking it to the Registrar or the Co-operative Tribunal under the procedure the Tribunal Rules prescribe. A practitioner who has the Act but not the bye-laws has perhaps half of what the matter needs.

This volume is assembled on that premise. Alongside the Act and the 2007 Rules it prints the model bye-laws for five kinds of society — group housing, agricultural marketing, consumer store, urban thrift and credit, and transport — together with the Tribunal Rules, the superseded Delhi Co-operative Societies Act, 1972 for reference in older matters, and the text of the National Cooperation Policy 2025 with an overview.

Key Features

• Edition 2026, Akalank Publications — Code Book of Statutes, NCT Delhi Law Series
• Bare text of the Delhi Co-operative Societies Act, 2003 (Delhi Act No. 3 of 2004)
• The Delhi Co-operative Societies Rules, 2007
• The Delhi Cooperative Tribunal Rules, 2006
• Bye-laws of five types of society printed in full
• The National Cooperation Policy 2025, with an overview
• The superseded Delhi Co-operative Societies Act, 1972, for matters still governed by it
• English · ISBN 9788176394710

Contents

The Delhi Co-operative Societies Act, 2003. Registration of societies and the Registrar; membership, rights and liabilities of members; the general body and the managing committee, elections and supersession; properties and funds; audit, inquiry, inspection and supervision; settlement of disputes and arbitration; winding up and dissolution; execution of orders, decisions and awards; the Co-operative Tribunal; offences and penalties; and the rule-making power.

The Delhi Co-operative Societies Rules, 2007. The procedural machinery under the Act — applications and forms for registration, amendment of bye-laws, conduct of elections and meetings, maintenance of records and registers, audit and accounts, and the procedure before the Registrar.

The Delhi Cooperative Tribunal Rules, 2006. The constitution and procedure of the Tribunal, the filing and hearing of appeals, and the powers exercisable by it.

Bye-laws of Co-operative Group Housing Society Ltd. The bye-laws governing group housing societies — membership and eligibility, allotment of dwelling units, transfer, funds and contributions, management and meetings.

Bye-laws of Co-operative Vegetable & Fruit Growers Agriculture Marketing Society Ltd. The model bye-laws for agricultural marketing societies.

Bye-laws of Cooperative Store Ltd. The bye-laws for consumer co-operative stores.

Bye-laws of Cooperative Urban Thrift & Credit Society Ltd. The bye-laws for thrift and credit societies — deposits, loans, recovery and the management of funds.

Model Bye-laws of a Cooperative Transport Society Ltd. The model bye-laws for transport societies.

National Cooperation Policy 2025. The full text of the National Cooperation Policy 2025, preceded by an overview of its objectives and approach.

The Delhi Co-operative Societies Act, 1972. The earlier Act, retained for reference where proceedings or rights arose under it.

Who Should Buy This Book?

• Advocates practising in co-operative society and group housing matters in Delhi
• Office bearers, secretaries and managing committee members of Delhi co-operative societies
• Group housing society members and resident bodies
• Practitioners before the Registrar of Co-operative Societies and the Co-operative Tribunal
• Officials of the Registrar's office and the Co-operative Department, GNCTD
• Auditors and arbitrators appointed in co-operative matters
• Candidates for the Delhi Judicial Service and other examinations with a local Acts paper
• Builders, property lawyers and conveyancers dealing with society flats
• Law college, bar association and departmental libraries

Why Choose This Book?

The decisive feature is the bye-laws. They are what a society is actually run by and what a dispute is actually decided on, and they are scattered and hard to obtain. Having the five principal sets printed with the Act and Rules, in one volume, is the whole reason to own a book like this rather than a bare Act.

The second is the Tribunal Rules. Appeals in co-operative matters go to the Delhi Co-operative Tribunal, and the procedure is in a separate 2006 instrument that most compilations omit.

The third is currency and continuity together. The 2026 edition carries the National Cooperation Policy 2025, while still printing the 1972 Act for the older matters that keep surfacing in long-running society litigation. Akalank's NCT Delhi Law Series exists precisely to be the one book on the Delhi practitioner's desk for a local statute, and this volume is a good example of it.