Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts[Section 9]
Matters to be provided for by the rules of societies
registered under this Act
1. Name, objects, and registered office of the
society.
2. Terms and admission of the members, including
any society or company investing funds in the society under the provisions of
this Act.
3. Mode of holding meetings, right of voting, and
of making, altering, or rescinding rules.
4. The appointment and removal of a committee of
management, by whatever name, of managers or other officers, and their
respective powers and remuneration.
5. Determination of the amount of interest, not
exceeding $50 000 or such other amount as is prescribed, in the shares of
the society which any member or body other than a registered society may hold.
6. Determination whether the society may contract
loans or receive money on deposit subject to the provisions of this Act from
members or others; and, if so, under what conditions, on what security, and to
what limits of amount.
7. Determination whether the shares or any of them
shall be transferable, and provisions for the form of transfer and
registration of the shares, and for the consent of the committee thereto;
determination whether the shares or any of them shall be withdrawable, and
provision for the mode of withdrawal and for payment of the balance due
thereon on withdrawing from the society.
8. Provision for the audit of accounts, and for
the appointment of auditors or a public auditor.
9. Determination whether and how members may
withdraw from the society, and provision for the claims of the representatives
of deceased members, or the trustees of the property of bankrupt members, and
for the payment of nominees.
10. Mode of application of profits.
11. Provisions for the device, custody, and use of
the seal of the society.
12. Determination whether, and by what authority,
and in what manner, any part of the capital may be invested.
[First Schedule amended by No. 48 of 1947
s. 6; No. 43 of 1969 s. 12; No. 61 of 1973 s. 5;
No. 60 of 1986 s. 7.]