Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A draft of the rules proposed for the cooperative (including active membership provisions under part 611) must be submitted to the registrar at least 28 days (or the shorter period the registrar may allow in a particular case) before the formation meeting is due to be held.
(2) The proposed rules must--
(a) be in accordance with section 101;12 and
(b) be in a form that may reasonably be approved; and
(c) if the rules contain any alterations of the model rules--be accompanied by a statement showing the alterations and the reasons for the alterations.
(3) If the rules do not make provision for any matter included in the model rules, the registrar may approve the relevant provisions of the model rules as rules of the cooperative.
(4) The registrar may--
(a) approve the rules as submitted; or
(b) approve different rules to those submitted; or
(c) refuse to approve the rules.
(5) The registrar approves of the rules by giving written notice of the approval of the rules to the person who submitted the draft rules to the registrar.
(6) The registrar must give written notice of the refusal to approve the rules and the reasons for the refusal to the person who submitted the rules to the registrar.