Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Co-operative Housing Societies Act 1958 - SECT 67

Special general meeting or inquiry

67. Special general meeting or inquiry



(1) The registrar shall on the application of a majority of the board or of
not less than one-third of the members of any society-

   (a)  call a special general meeting of the society; or

   (b)  hold an inquiry into the affairs of the society.

(2) The application shall be supported by such evidence as the registrar
directs for the purpose of showing that the applicants have good reason for
requiring the meeting or inquiry, and that the application is made without
malicious motive.

(3) Such notice of the application shall be given to the society as the
registrar directs.

(4) The applicants shall give such security for the expenses of the meeting or
inquiry as the registrar directs.

(5) The registrar may direct at what time and place any such meeting is to be
held and what matters are to be discussed and determined at the meeting, and
shall give such notice to members of the holding of such meeting as he deems
fit notwithstanding any provision in the rules of the society as to the giving
of such notice.

(6) The meeting shall have all the powers of a meeting called in accordance
with the rules of the society, and shall have power to appoint its own
chairman, notwithstanding any rule of the society to the contrary.

(7) The registrar may appoint an inspector for the purpose of any such
inquiry.

(8) All expenses of and incidental to the meeting or inquiry shall be defrayed
by the applicants or out of the funds of the society or by any officer or
member or former officer or member of the society as the registrar directs, or
in any two or more of such ways in such proportions as the registrar directs,
and may be recovered in the Magistrates' Court as a civil debt recoverable
summarily or in any other competent court.