CO-OPERATIVE AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT 1903
Table of Provisions
- 1 Short title and commencement
- 2 Interpretation
- 2A Registered societies excluded from Corporations legislation
- 3 Societies which may be registered
- 4 Conditions of registration
- 5 Acknowledgment of registry
- 6 Appeal from refusal to register
- 7 Evidence of registration
- 8 Cancelling
- 9 Rules
- 10 Duties of societies
- 11 Audit
- 12 Annual returns
- 13 Supplying copies of the annual return
- 14 Returns and other documents to be in form prescribed by the Registrar
- 15 Incorporation of society with limited liability
- 16 Rules to bind members
- 17 Remedy for debts from members
- 18 Power of nomination for sums not exceeding
- 19 Proceedings on death of a nominator
- 20 Provision for intestacy
- 21 Payment on behalf of insane members
- 22 Payments to persons apparently entitled valid
- 23 Membership of minors
- 24 Promissory notes and bills of exchange
- 25 Register of members or shares
- 26 Contracts how made, varied or discharged
- 27 Investment of funds
- 28 Holding of land
- 29 Advances to members
- 30 Societies members of other bodies corporate may vote by proxy
- 31 Any body corporate may hold shares in a society
- 32 Discharges of mortgages by receipt indorsed
- 33 Security by officers
- 34 Accounts of officers
- 35 Decision of disputes
- 36 Enforcing decisions
- 37 Inspection of books
- 38 Power to appoint inspectors, and call special meeting
- 39 Special resolutions
- 40 Power to change name
- 41 Power of amalgamation
- 42 Power of conversion into a company, etc.
- 43 Conversion of company into society
- 44 Registration of special resolution
- 45 Creditors not prejudiced
- 46 Dissolution of a registered society
- 47 Liability of members in winding up
- 48 Contents of instrument of dissolution
- 49 Offences by societies
- 50 Responsibility of officers for offences of society
- 51 Punishment for fraudulently obtaining, withholding, or misappropriating the property of a society
- 52 Falsification of documents
- 53 Penalty for not using name of society
- 54 Delivery of false rules
- 55 Illegal dissolution
- 56 Power to societies to impose penalties on officers and members
- 57 When no other penalty provided
- 58 Proceedings for offences
- 60 Forms of acknowledgment of registry
- 61 Appointment of public auditors
- 62 Evidence
- 63 Printed copies of rules in use to be evidence
- 64 Governor may make regulations
- 65 Report by Registrar
- 66 Saving liability of Her Majesty’s Government
- 67 Registrar
- 68 Delegation by Registrar
- 69 Information officially obtained to be confidential
- 70 Protection from liability for wrongdoing
- 71 Judicial notice
