Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CO-OPERATIVE AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES ACT 1903

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   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
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