This legislation has been repealed.
A trading society may be formed for all or any of the following objects:
(a) to carry on in the ACT any business, trade or industry specified in or authorised by its rules, whether wholesale or retail; and
(b) to acquire and distribute information as to the markets of the world and as to cooperative trading in general; and
(c) to establish agencies in the ACT and elsewhere for any objects of the society; and
(d) to do all other things calculated to promote the economic interests of its members in relation to the objects mentioned that are prescribed.