Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14)

Part 3 Members and officers

Provisions about certain kinds of member etc

31 Members under 18

(1) A person under the age of 18 may be a member of a registered society unless the society’s registered rules provide otherwise.

(2) A person under the age of 18—

(a) may enjoy all the rights of a member of a registered society, and

(b) if aged 16 or over, may execute all instruments and give all receipts necessary to be executed or given under a society’s registered rules.

This is subject to the society’s registered rules and to the provisions of this Act.

(3) A person under the age of 16 may not be a member of a registered society’s committee or a trustee, manager or treasurer of a registered society.

32 Bodies corporate may be members

Shares in a registered society may be held by any other body corporate (if that body’s regulations so permit) by its corporate name.

33 Society a member of another society: references to members making and signing documents etc

(1) This section applies where a registered society (“society A”) is a member of another registered society (“society B”).

(2) For the purposes of any enactment relating to a registered society’s members making or signing an application, instrument or document, any reference in the enactment to a member is to be read, in relation to society A as a member of society B, as a reference to 2 members of society A’s committee and its secretary.