Union Territories & Panchayats
This Part applies to multi-State co-operative societies too, with "Legislature of a State", "State Act", and "State Government" read as "Parliament", "Central Act", and "the Central Government" respectively.
This is the crucial article that keeps this Part meaningfully alive today: since the 2021 Supreme Court ruling struck down this Part for STATE-level co-operatives (for lack of the required state-legislature ratification), this article is what actually keeps the Part's governance rules operative - but only for multi-State co-operative societies, which fall under Parliament's own law-making power rather than the states'.
A large dairy or banking co-operative that genuinely operates across multiple states remains bound by this Part's board-size caps, reservation requirements, and audit rules today - it's specifically this multi-State category that survived the Supreme Court's 2021 ruling intact.