New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CO-OPERATIVES ACT 1992 - SECT 181A

181A Control of the right to vote

(cf Vic Act s 185)

(1) A person must not directly or indirectly control the exercise of the right to vote of a member.

Maximum penalty: 60 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.

(2) If a person controls the exercise of the right to vote of a member at a meeting of a co-operative:

(a) the vote of that member, and

(b) the vote of that person, if that person is a member,

are invalid.

(3) Nothing in this section prevents the exercise of a vote by means of a proxy or power of attorney.