This Act provides for the constitution and registration of cooperative societies and societies formed at the national level by the cooperative movement in Kenya to promote co-operative development and defines functions, powers, rights and obligations and internal organization of registered societies. The Act consists of 96 sections divided into 15 Parts. The Act makes provision for a Commissioner for Co-operative Development who shall be responsible for the growth and development of cooperative societies, for their organization, registration, operation, advancement and dissolution and for administration of the provisions of this Act. The Act prescribes conditions for and procedures of registration of cooperative societies. A cooperative society, which has as one of its objects the disposal of any agricultural produce, may enter into a contract with its members binding the members to dispose of all their agricultural produce through the society. The Minister may establish the Co-operative Development Fund.
Kenya · 1998-06-01