New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CO-OPERATIVES ACT 1992 - SECT 292

292 Powers of Court with respect to contraventions

(1) If a person has contravened section 287 in respect of a co-operative, the Court may, on the application of the co-operative or the Registrar, make such order or orders as it thinks just, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing):

(a) a remedial order, and

(b) for the purpose of securing compliance with any other order made under this section, an order directing the co-operative or any other person to do or refrain from doing a specified act.

(2) An order may be made whether or not the contravention continues.

(3) The proof to the satisfaction of the Court at the hearing of the application that:

(a) a person has a relevant interest in a share of a co-operative because an associate of the person has a relevant interest in a share, and

(b) the associate became entitled to that relevant interest within 6 months before the application was filed with the Court,

is evidence (in the absence of evidence to the contrary) that the associate was an associate of the person from the time the person first had the relevant interest until the date of the hearing.