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Canada Cooperatives Act

Version of section 61 from 2003-01-01 to 2018-04-30:


Marginal note:List of persons entitled to receive notice

  •  (1) A cooperative must prepare an alphabetical list of its members as of the record date established under subsection 51(2) or, if the by-laws provide for delegates, of the delegates, who are entitled to receive notice of and vote at a meeting of members.

  • Marginal note:Entitlement to vote — members’ meetings

    (2) Subject to subsection 7(3), a member or delegate whose name appears on the list referred to in subsection (1) is entitled to one vote at a meeting of members.

  • Marginal note:List of shareholders entitled to vote

    (3) If a record date for voting is fixed under subsection 51(4), a cooperative must prepare, no later than ten days after the record date, an alphabetical list of shareholders who are entitled to vote as of the record date at a meeting of shareholders that shows the number of investment shares held by each shareholder.

  • Marginal note:Entitlement to vote

    (4) A shareholder named in the list referred to in subsection (3) is entitled to vote the investment shares opposite their name at the meeting to which the list relates.

  • Marginal note:List of shareholders entitled to receive notice

    (5) If a record date for voting is not fixed under subsection 51(4), a cooperative must prepare, not later than ten days after a record date for notice of meeting is fixed under subsection 51(3) or not later than the record date referred to in subsection 51(5), as the case may be, an alphabetical list of shareholders who are entitled to receive notice of a meeting of shareholders as of the record date that shows the number of shares held by each shareholder.

  • Marginal note:Entitlement to vote

    (6) A shareholder whose name appears on the list referred to in subsection (5) is entitled to vote the investment shares shown opposite their name at the meeting to which the list relates, except to the extent that

    • (a) the shareholder has transferred the ownership of any of those investment shares after the record date, and

    • (b) the transferee of those investment shares demands, not later than ten days before the meeting, or any shorter period that the by-laws of the cooperative provide, that the transferee’s name be included in the list before the meeting and produces properly endorsed investment share certificates or otherwise establishes that the transferee owns the investment shares,

    in which case the transferee may vote the shares at the meeting.

  • Marginal note:Examination of list

    (7) A person who is entitled to vote at a meeting of a cooperative may examine a list that relates to the meeting

    • (a) during usual business hours at the registered office of the cooperative or at the place where its records of members and shareholders are maintained; and

    • (b) at the meeting for which the list was prepared.


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