Canada Cooperatives Act

Marginal note:Qualifications

• 78 (1) A person is not qualified to be a director if the person

  • (a) is not an individual;

  • (b) is less than eighteen years of age;

  • (c) is of unsound mind and has been so found by a court in Canada or elsewhere; or

  • (d) has the status of bankrupt.

• Marginal note:Additional qualifications

  (2) A cooperative may provide in its by-laws for qualifications or disqualifications of directors in addition to those in subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Status of directors

  (3) Unless Part 21 applies to a cooperative, a majority of the directors must be individuals who are not full-time officers or employees of the cooperative.

• Marginal note:Resident in Canada

  (4) At least twenty-five per cent of the directors must be resident in Canada. However, if the cooperative has only three directors, at least one director must be resident in Canada.

• Marginal note:Member election

  (5) Subject to subsections 124(3) and (4), all directors are to be elected by the members.