law: Co-Operative Societies Act 2008
  47.
  
  Proposals
  1.      A member who is
  
  entitled to vote at an annual meeting of members may-
  a.     
  
    submit
  
  to the society notice of any matter that he proposes to raise at the meeting;
  
  and
  b.    
  
    discuss
  
  at the meeting any matter with respect to which he would have been entitled to
  
  submit a proposal.
  1.      
  2.      Where a member
  
  submits a proposal and requests the directors of the society to send the
  
  proposal with the notice of the meeting at which the proposal is to be
  
  presented or make the proposal available to all members entitled to attend and
  
  vote at that meeting, the society shall comply.
  3.      Where a member
  
  submits a proposal and requests the society to include in or attach to the
  
  notice-
  a.     
  
    a
  
  statement by the member of not more than 200 words in support of the proposal;
  
  and
  b.    
  
    the
  
  name and address of the member, the society shall comply.
  1.      
  2.      
  3.      
  4.      A society is not
  
  required to comply with subsections (2) and (3) where-
  a.     
  
    the
  
  proposal is not submitted to the society at least forty-five days before the
  
  anniversary date of the previous annual general meeting of members;
  b.    
  
    in
  
  the opinion of the directors, the proposal is submitted by the member primarily
  
  for the purpose of-
                       
  
   i.        
  
    enforcing
  
  a personal claim or redressing a personal grievance; or
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    promoting
  
  general economic, political, racial, religious, social or similar causes;
  a.     
  
     
  b.     
  
     
  c.     
  
    the
  
  society, at the member’s request, included a proposal in a notice of a meeting
  
  of members held within 2 years preceding the receipt of the proposal submitted
  
  pursuant to subsection (1), and the member failed to present the proposal at
  
  the meeting;
  d.    
  
    substantially
  
  the same proposal was submitted to members in the notice of a meeting of
  
  members held within 2 years preceding the receipt of the member’s request, and
  
  the proposal was defeated; or
  e.     
  
    in
  
  the opinion of the directors, the rights conferred by this section are being
  
  abused to secure publicity.
  1.      
  2.      
  3.      
  4.      
  5.      The member who
  
  requests that the proposal and any statement be sent with the notice of the
  
  meeting at which the proposal is to be presented shall pay the cost of sending
  
  the proposal and statement, unless the members present at the meeting provide
  
  otherwise by a majority vote.
  6.      No society and no
  
  person acting on behalf of a society incurs any liability by reason only of
  
  circulating a proposal or statement in compliance with this section.
  7.      Where a society
  
  refuses to include a proposal in a notice of a meeting, the society shall,
  
  within thirty days after receiving the proposal-
  a.     
  
    notify
  
  the member submitting the proposal of its intention to omit the proposal from
  
  the notice of the meeting; and
  b.    
  
    send
  
  to the member a statement of the reasons for the refusal.
  1.      
  2.      
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  4.      
  5.      
  6.      
  7.      
  8.      Where a member
  
  claiming to be aggrieved by a refusal pursuant to subsection (7) applies to the
  
  Registrar, the Registrar may suspend the holding of the meeting to which the
  
  proposal is sought to be presented and may give any directions he considers
  
  appropriate.
  9.      In this section “proposal”
  
  means a notice submitted to a society pursuant to subsection (1)(a) .