Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CO-OPERATIVE AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT 1903 - SECT 39

39 .         Special resolutions

                For the purposes of this Act a special resolution shall mean a resolution which is — 

            (a)         passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of such members of a society for the time being entitled under the rules to vote as are present in person, or by proxy where the rules allow proxies, at any general meeting of which notice, specifying the intention to propose such resolution, has been duly given according to the rules; and

            (b)         confirmed by a majority of such members for the time being entitled under the rules to vote as are present in person, or by proxy where the rules allow proxies, at a subsequent general meeting of which notice has been duly given, held not less than 14 days nor more than one month from the day of the meeting at which such resolution was first passed.

                At any meeting mentioned in this section a declaration by the chairman that the resolution has been carried shall be deemed conclusive evidence of the fact.