Second Session, Thirty-Eighth Legislature
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Bill 27
THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES ACT
Section | Table of Contents |
PART 1 | |
INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS | |
DEFINITIONS | |
1 | Definitions |
SUPERINTENDENT | |
2(1) | Appointment of superintendent |
(2) | Superintendent's authority and responsibilities |
PART 2 | |
SOCIETIES | |
OBJECTS OF A SOCIETY | |
3 | Objects of a society |
CONTINUATION OF EXISTING SOCIETIES | |
4(1) | Meaning of "former Act" |
(2) | Former agricultural societies continued |
(3) | Certain corporations recognized as societies |
ORGANIZING A SOCIETY | |
5(1) | Organizing a society |
(2) | Application for permission to organize |
(3) | Proposed constitution must be acceptable |
(4) | Minister's permission required |
(5) | Minister may consult MAAS |
(6) | Certificate of organization |
(7) | Society's name |
(8) | Minister may change a society's name |
6 | Powers of provisional directors |
7 | Where a society may be organized |
8(1) | Organizational meeting |
(2) | Provisional directors must conduct meeting |
(3) | Provisional directors cease once new board elected |
(4) | Report to superintendent |
MEMBERS | |
9(1) | Membership |
(2) | Becoming a member |
(3) | Corporate members |
STATUS AND GOVERNANCE OF SOCIETIES | |
10(1) | Societies are bodies corporate |
(2) | Effective date of corporate status |
11(1) | Officers |
(2) | Certain officers are also directors |
(3) | Directors and officers must be adult Manitobans and members |
(4) | Appointment of secretary and treasurer |
(5) | Secretary-treasurer not automatically a director |
(6) | Term of office of elected officers and directors |
(7) | Term of office of the secretary-treasurer |
(8) | Filling vacated elected offices |
12(1) | Duties and powers of secretary |
(2) | Duties and powers of treasurer |
13(1) | Financial statements |
(2) | Appointment of auditor |
(3) | Special resolution not to appoint an auditor |
(4) | Special resolution to appoint qualified person |
(5) | Superintendent may require auditor to be appointed |
(6) | Society must comply with requirement |
14(1) | Constitution must not be inconsistent with Act |
(2) | Constitution may increase members' minimum age |
(3) | Secretary to send by-laws to superintendent |
(4) | Approval required for certain by-law changes |
(5) | Resolution not effective until approved |
(6) | Certified copy of amended or new constitution |
15(1) | Use of funds and assets |
(2) | Deposit or investment of funds |
(3) | Deposit or investment in society's name |
16(1) | Annual report to superintendent |
(2) | Effect of failing to send annual report |
(3) | Associations must submit annual report |
PART 3 | |
GRANTS TO SOCIETIES, ASSOCIATIONS AND RECOGNIZED | |
17 | Definitions |
18 | Grants to societies and associations |
19(1) | Minister may recognize organizations |
(2) | Grants to recognized organizations |
(3) | Minister may impose conditions on grants |
(4) | Failure to comply with conditions |
20 | Factors in deciding grant amounts and entitlement |
21 | Requirements for obtaining grant |
22 | No grant if Act not complied with |
23 | No grants for similar activities in same year |
PART 4 | |
SUSPENSION OR CANCELLATION OF CERTIFICATES, INACTIVE | |
24(1) | Suspension of certificate of organization |
(2) | No grants while certificate suspended |
(3) | Reinstatement of certificate |
25 | Superintendent's authority re inactive society |
26(1) | Dissolution of society by minister's order |
(2) | Order is to be published in The Manitoba Gazette |
(3) | Effect of dissolution |
(4) | Cancellation of certificate of organization |
27(1) | Appointment of liquidator |
(2) | Liquidator to observe reversionary interests |
(3) | Payment of costs of liquidation and creditors |
(4) | Payment of creditors in the case of a deficiency |
(5) | Powers of liquidator |
(6) | Liquidator's reports |
28(1) | Primary disposition of surplus |
(2) | Alternative disposition |
29(1) | Cancellation of certificate of an association |
(2) | Surrender of certificate of organization |
(3) | Former association must not call itself an agricultural society |
PART 5 | |
GENERAL PROVISIONS | |
30(1) | Unauthorized use of title "agricultural society" |
(2) | MAAS excepted |
31 | Consultation with MAAS |
32 | Examination of books by Auditor General |
33(1) | Regulations |
(2) | Regulations re pari-mutuel levy exemptions |
34 | Repeal |
35 | C.C.S.M. reference |
36 | Coming into force |