The 2026 Amendment Rules, for a committee

The Maharashtra Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Rules 2026 were notified on 18 June 2026 and published in the Gazette on 22 June 2026, the date they came into force. They insert Chapter XI-B — Rules 106C-1 to 106C-14 — written for housing societies alone, and new Forms Y-1 to Y-7. Here is what a committee needs to know. Section numbers are given so you can check the text; see sources.

Money

Interest on arrears: at most 12 % a year, simple (Rule 106C-12). The 2014 bye-laws allowed up to 21 % (BL 72). No interest during the payment period. If the general body has not fixed a rate, the draft 2026 bye-laws apply 12 % by default.
Committee spending on repairs without general-body sanction (Rule 106C-13), one-time per year: ₹1 lakh (up to 25 members), ₹2 lakh (26–50), ₹3 lakh (51–100), ₹4 lakh (101–1,000), ₹5 lakh (above 1,000). The 2014 limits were ₹25,000 / ₹50,000 / ₹1 lakh (BL 156).
Apportionment (Rule 106C-12): property tax on common areas, the major repair fund, insurance and lease rent move to carpet area; amenities and other funds are shared equally.
Entrance fee ₹500 (Rule 106C-4), up from ₹100.
Education & Training Fund: ₹10 per member per month (Rules 106C-7 and 106C-11).
Borrowing up to ten times paid-up capital plus reserves and contributions (Rule 106C-10).

Meetings

General-body meetings may be attended by video conference with recording and identification of participants (Rule 106C-13).
Redevelopment special general meetings: 14 clear days’ notice, two-thirds of all members present in person, the Registrar’s representative, mandatory video recording, and approval by 51 % of the total membership.

Members

New forms: Y-4 provisional member after a member’s death, Y-5 transfer by registered family arrangement, Y-5A associate member (Rules 106C-5, 106C-6).
Forms J-1, J-2 and M-1 to M-19 are deleted.

Training

Every member: one 3-hour session a year. Every committee member, office-bearer and employee: two (Rule 106C-7).

Recovery of dues

Application for a recovery certificate in Form Y-6 with a ₹100 fee; the certificate in Form Y-7, executable as arrears of land revenue (Rule 106C-14; s.154B-29).

What waits for the final bye-laws

The draft Model Bye-laws 2026 carry the detail — registers, complaint clocks, retention, committee sizes. Objections closed on 27 August 2026 and the final text is awaited. Societies adopt them after notification. Until then, SocietyAxis runs each society on the 2014 bye-laws it has registered, with the 2026 Rules applied from their date, and marks every draft-only number as draft.

This is a summary for committees, not legal advice.