Why must a Registered Society be a Co-op or Bencom?

That stalwart co-operator formerly of Shared Interest, Mark Hayes, contacted me today with a query about how the statutory requirements (bona fide co-operative or bencom) for the registration...

That stalwart co-operator formerly of Shared Interest, Mark Hayes, contacted me today with a query about how the statutory requirements (bona fide co-operative or bencom) for the registration of an industrial and provident (aka co-operative and community benefit) society came about.

That caused me to dig out and scan an old paper of mine from 2001 which discussed the history and referred to some of the sources on that one.

Here it is in the interests of dissemination to interested lawyers and co-operators.

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