Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Act (No. 5 of 1997).

Amendments of the principal Act, inter alia, provide: (a) a new definition of "federation"; (b) a definition of "agricultural society"; (c) a new definition of the objectives of a primary society; (d) the establishment of joint ventures by a cooperative society; (e) a new definition of the nature of cooperative societies; (f) for the registration of cooperative societies; (g) for the management committee of cooperative societies; (h) for the creation of a Central Cooperative Fund; and (i) rules for the compulsory amalgamation or division of cooperative societies, by order of the Registrar. "Agricultural Society" means a society whose principal object is the business of supplying inputs for agricultural crop production. The purchasing, processing, marketing and distribution of agricultural produce" (sect. 2). (24 sections)