Cooperative Societies Act (Cap. 47:02).

This Act makes provision for the establishment and registration of cooperative societies and defines their functions and powers. It also concerns the resolution of disputes and the control of registered societies, establishes the National Cooperative Education Fund and provides with respect to cooperative unions and apex societies.
There shall be a Registrar for cooperative societies who shall also be the Commissioner for Cooperative Development for the purposes of this Act. Against the refusal of the Registrar to register a society or its by-laws or any amendment of its by-laws, an appeal may be had with the Minister. A registered society, having as one of its objects the disposal of any agricultural produce, may sign a contract with its members (or establish in its by-laws) that they shall dispose of all their produce, or of such amounts or descriptions as may be stated therein, to or through the society. A registered society may, from time to time, with the consent of the Registrar, charge the whole or any part of its property, if its by-laws expressly empower it to do so and to the extent to which its by-laws empower it to do so.