NSWIn ForceAct
Co-operative Housing and Starr-Bowkett Societies Act 1998
73Joint members
Start here
Get a plain-English read of 73
Turn the raw legal text into a practical explanation grounded in Co-operative Housing and Starr-Bowkett Societies Act 1998.
#### 73 Joint members
73 Joint members
> > (1) Membership in a society may be joint if the society’s rules provide for it.
>
> > (2) If membership is joint the following provisions apply—
> >
> > > (a) the register of members must indicate that a person is a joint member,
> >
> > > (b) the joint members are entitled to choose the order in which they are named in the register of members, but failing any such choice the society may enter the names in the order it considers appropriate,
> >
> > > (c) the joint member who is named first in the society’s register of members is the primary joint member,
> >
> > > (d) subject to the society’s rules, but without affecting the right of a member to obtain a copy of the statement of financial position from the society on demand, a notice or other document may be given or sent to the primary joint member,
> >
> > > (e) for the purpose of determining—
> > >
> > > > (i) who is qualified to vote on a resolution at a meeting of the society, and
> > >
> > > > (ii) the number or proportion of members required to give effect to any provision of this Act or the society’s rules,
> > >
> > > membership is taken to be solely that of the primary joint member.