law: Co-Operative Societies Act 2008 
  9.
  
  Application for registration
  1.      No society may
  
  commence or continue business unless it is registered in accordance with this
  
  Act.
  2.      Subject to subsection
  
  (3) an application for registration under this Act must be submitted to the
  
  Registrar in the prescribed form and in such manner as he determines.
  3.      An application for
  
  registration shall be signed-
  a.     
  
    in
  
  the case of a society of which no member is a registered society, by at least
  
  one-third of the members specified in paragraph (c) of section 12(1) for
  
  such a society;
  b.    
  
    in
  
  the case of a society where all members of the society are not registered
  
  societies, by at least 3 quarters of the total membership of the society; and
  c.     
  
    in
  
  the case of a society where all the members are registered societies, on behalf
  
  of at least two such societies.
  1.     
  2.     
  3.     
  4.      An application must
  
  be accompanied by-
  a.     
  
    3
  
  copies of the proposed by- the society;
  b.    
  
    the
  
  prescribed application fee; and
  c.     
  
    such
  
  other information in respect of the society as the Registrar requires.