Section 17. Management of deficit.

(1) Where a Co-operative Society is left with a deficit in any given year, the board of directors shall place before the general body in the first following annual general meeting a detailed report on the causes of deficit and the manner in which the deficit is proposed to be met. (2) The general body of the Co-operative Society shall decide to have the deficit covered by setting it off against the amounts available in the deficit cover fund and/or by debiting the deficit to the accounts of the members in proportion to the services they had availed or were expected to avail of the Co-operative Society during the year.