Singapore legislation

Section 18

of Co-operative Societies Act 1979

Section 18

Register of members and shares

Amended by3/2018

(1)

Every society must maintain a register of members, and where a society issues shares to its members, a register of shares held by each member.

(2)

Where a society issues permanent shares to its institutional members, the number of permanent shares held by each institutional member must be recorded in the society’s register of shares.

Amended by3/2018

(3)

The register of members and shares is prima facie evidence of any of the following particulars entered in the register:

(a)

the date on which the name of any person was entered in the register as a member;

(b)

the date on which any such person ceased to be a member; and

(c)

the number of shares held by a member.