Part 3 — Meetings
49 Regulations
(a) respecting the location of meetings of members and
investment shareholders of a cooperative;
(b) respecting the attending of meetings by electronic means,
the holding of meetings entirely by electronic means, the
electronic or other methods by which voting may occur at a
meeting that is attended or held by electronic means and the
methods by which notice of meetings may be given;
(c) prescribing the time within which the directors of a
cooperative must hold a first meeting of the members after
the issuance of a certificate of incorporation;
(d) respecting the business that must be conducted at the firs t
meeting of the cooperative;
(e) prescribing the time within which the directors of a
cooperative must hold the first annual meeting of members
or a special meeting of the cooperative;
(f) respecting the rights of a director, member or investment
shareholder to call a meeting where a meeting is not called
within the time provided for in the regulations, the articles,
the bylaws or a unanimous agreement;
(g) respecting the right of an investment shareholder to call a
special meeting of the investment shareholders;
(h) governing the giving of a n otice of a meeting of members or
investment shareholders of a cooperative, the information
that must be included in the notice, the manner of giving the
notice and the persons entitled or not entitled to receive the
notice;
(i) respecting any additional requirements for notice of
meetings of investment shareholders;
(j) respecting waiver o f a notice of a meeting;
(k) determining the right to vote of a person entitled to vote
who does not receive a notice of a meeting;
(l) respecting or determining t he record dates of a cooperative
and the manner of giving notice of record dates;
(m) providing that all matters dealt with at an annual general
meeting or a special meeting of the cooperative are special
business and providing for any matters that are not special
business;
(n) governing the contents of a notice of a meeting where
special business is to be transacted;
(o) governing the manner in which the text of any special
resolution not included in a notice referred to in clause (n)
must be available to the members and the shareholders;
(p) respecting the rules for requisition of a meeting of members
or investment shareholders and the requirement for directors
to transact the business stated in the requisition and any
exceptions to that requirement and the rights of any person
who signed the requisition to call a meeting of members if a
meeting is not called within the prescribed time;
(q) providing that the manner of calling a meeting referred to in
clause (p) may be determined in accordance with the
articles, the bylaws or a unanimous agreement;
(r) respecting the reimbursemen t by the cooperative of persons
who sign a requisition referred to in clause (p);
(s) providing for a person wh o is entitled to vote at a meeting
or, in the case of a distributing cooperative, the Executive
Director to apply to the Court for an order to call, hold and
conduct a meeting of a cooperative;
(t) respecting the submission and contents of proposals
submitted by a member to a cooperative for meetings of
members other than special meetings;
(u) governing the categories of persons who may submit a
proposal to the cooperative to amend the articles, any proof
required to demonstrate that a person is authorized to submit
a proposal and the time for providing that proof;
(v) respecting the liability inc urred for circulating a proposal
referred to in clause (t);
(w) providing for
(i) exceptions from the requirement for a cooperative to
include a proposal for consideration at a meeting of
members, and
(ii) written notice of a refusal by a cooperative to include a
proposal in a notice of meeting, the time for that written
notice to be given and a requirement for reasons for the
refusal to be provided by the cooperative;
(x) respecting applications to the Court by a person aggrieved
by a refusal referred to in clause (w)(ii) or a person
aggrieved by a proposal;
(y) providing for rules governing the preparation of lists of
members, delegates of members or investment shareholders
and the number of investment shares held by each
investment shareholder for the purpose of determining the
entitlement to vote at meetings of the cooperative and
prescribing the right of members, delegates and investment
shareholders to examine the list that relates to the meeting;
(z) respecting the number of votes a member or investment
shareholder is entitled to at a meeting of the cooperative;
(aa) respecting quorum at mee tings of members or investment
shareholders;
(bb) respecting the voting rights of members who are not
individuals, holders of joint memberships and investment
shares;
(cc) respecting the manner o f voting at meetings of the
cooperative or authorizing resolutions instead of a meeting
of the cooperative;
(dd) respecting any other matter for the operation of this Par t.
(2) Regulations under subsection (1)(b), (h) or (cc) may
(a) set different requirements for different periods of time, and
(b) apply retroactively to a period of time prescribed or
otherwise described in the regulations if, in the opinion of
the Minister, there are extraordinary circumstances
warranting their retroactive application during that period.
2001 cC-28.1 s49;2021 c3 s4