State Act

The Punjab Self-Supporting Co-operative Societies Act, 2006

7. (1) Every self-supporting co-operative society shall display its full name, registration number and the address of its registered office in legible local language, conspicuously— (a) at every office or place at which it carries on business ; (b) on all notices and other publications ; (c) on all its contracts, business letters, orders for goods, invoices, statements of accounts, receipts and letters of credit ; and (d) on all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders for money, it signs or that are signed on its behalf. (2) Where a self-supporting co-operative society has a seal, it shall display its full name in legible local language on its seal. (3) A self-supporting co-operative society shall not be registered with the same name, if another self-supporting co-operative society or a co-operative society, as the case may be, already stands registered by that name.