Western Australian Current Acts

CO-OPERATIVES ACT 2009 - SECT 380B

380B .         False copies of documents of participating co-operatives

        (1)         A person who, in purported compliance with a provision of the relevant corresponding co-operatives law that corresponds to section 68 —

            (a)         gives a person intending or applying to become a member of a participating co-operative a document as a copy of —

                  (i)         a special resolution of the co-operative; or

                  (ii)         the most recent financial information reported to members of the co-operative under Part 10A;

                and

            (b)         knows or ought to know that, in a material respect, it is not a true copy of the resolution or information; and

            (c)         does not indicate to that person that it is not a true copy,

                is guilty of an offence.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $1 000.

        (2)         A person who, in purported compliance with a provision of the relevant corresponding co-operatives law that corresponds to section 68 —

            (a)         makes available for inspection by a person intending or applying to become a member of a participating co-operative a document as a copy of —

                  (i)         a special resolution of the co-operative; or

                  (ii)         the most recent financial information reported to members of the co-operative under Part 10A;

                and

            (b)         knows or ought to know that, in a material respect, it is not a true copy of the resolution or information; and

            (c)         does not indicate to that person that it is not a true copy,

                is guilty of an offence.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $1 000.

        [Section 380B inserted: No. 7 of 2016 s. 135.]