ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I
Preliminary

SECTION

1.        Short title

2.        Interpretation

PART II
Agricultural Management Associations

3.        Commissioner

4.        Register of agricultural management associations

5.        Association of five or more persons

6.        Consideration of application by Commissioner

7.        Constitution of association

8.        Incorporation of association

9.        Certificate of registration

10.        Powers of association

11.        Officers of association

12.        Register of members

13.        Limitation on liability of members

14.        No individual claim on capital

15.        Disposal of profits

16.        Annual meeting of association

17.        Commissioner may convene special general meeting

18.        Books of account

19.        Records to be available for inspection

20.        Annual and extraordinary audits of accounts

21.        Style or firm name to include registered number

22.        Style or firm name to be made public

23.        Office and postal address of association

24.        Cancellation of registration

25.        Winding up on cancellation of registration

26.        Application of assets on winding up

27.        Inspection of register and other documents

PART III
Regulations

28.        Regulations

Act 10, 1978,
S.I. 101, 1979,
Act 18, 1986.

An Act to provide for the constitution, registration and control of agricultural management associations; to provide for the rights, privileges, obligations and liabilities of members thereof; and to provide for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

[Date of Commencement: 15th October, 1979]

1.       Short title

            This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Management Associations Act.

2.       Interpretation

            In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

            "agricultural venture" means a venture concerned with horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur, or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land), the use of land as grazing land, meadow lands, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands;

            "association" means an agricultural management association registered under section 6;

            "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agricultural Management Associations referred to in section 3;

            "register" means the register maintained by the Commissioner under section 4.