1. The question is whether the Labour Court, the 2nd respondent to this petition, has jurisdiction to pass the award Ext. P5 relating to the dismissal of the 4th respondent, one P. P. Chacko, from the services of the petitioner-Co-operative Society. By Ext. P5 award, the 2nd respondent has directed reinstatement of the 4th respondent as an employee of the petitioner-Society. Without going into the merits of the decision in Ext. P5 excepting in referring to the incompetency of the President of the petitioner-Society in giving consent to the reinstatement of the 4th respondent, counsel urged that the dispute about the correctness or otherwise of the dismissal of the 4th respondent from the services of the petitioner-Society is a matter falling within S.69 of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (hereinafter called the Act) that the dispute is one falling within the definition of that term in S.2(i) of the Act and that the Registrar alone was competent to decide it. The Act was passed with the assent of the President after the enactment of the industrial Disputes Act, 1947. Therefore, it was submitted that the provisions of the Act must prevail. We are therefore ask