(1) No member of any multi-State cooperative society or nominee of a member, society or a national co-operative society shall be eligible for being chosen as, or for being, a member of the board of such multi-State co-operative society or a national co-operative society, or of any other co-operative society to which the multi-State co-operatives society is affiliated, if such member—

Provided that the Chief Executive or such full time employee of the society as may be notified by the Central Government from time to time or a person elected by the employees of such society to represent them on the board of such society shall be eligible for being chosen as, or for being, a member of such board;

Provided that a member of the board who has ceased to hold office as such under this clause shall not be eligible, for a period of one year, from the date on which he ceased to hold office, for re-election as a member of the board of the multi-State co-operative society of which he was a member or for the election to the board of any other multi-State co-operative society;

Explanation.—For the purposes of this clause, "legal practitioner " has the same meaning as in clause (i) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961);

(2) A person shall not be eligible for being elected as member of board of a multi-State co-operative society for a period of five years if the board of such multi-State co-operative society fails—