South Australian Consolidated Acts

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CO-OPERATIVE AND COMMUNITY HOUSING ACT 1991 - SECT 34

34—Membership fees

        (1)         The rules of a registered housing co-operative may provide for the imposition of membership fees.

        (2)         The rules may provide for different levels of fees according to different classes of membership.

        (3)         Subject to subsections (4) and (5), a member is not entitled to vote on any question arising for decision at a meeting of the co-operative unless his or her membership fees have been paid.

        (4)         Subsection (3) does not apply—

            (a)         if a unanimous resolution is required; or

            (b)         if the co-operative has resolved that the member can exercise a vote notwithstanding that his or her fees have not been paid.

        (5)         A co-operative may, in an appropriate case, remit the membership fee payable by a person wholly or in part.