Building Societies Act, 1989

PART VI

Meetings, Resolutions, Voting, etc.

Annual general meeting.

67.—(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a building society shall hold a meeting in the State, in the first 4 months of each financial year, as its annual general meeting (in addition to any other meetings in that year), and shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it.

(2) A society need not hold an annual general meeting in the year in which it is incorporated.

(3) The Central Bank may at its discretion, upon application being made to it in writing by a society, fix a longer period than 4 months for the purposes of subsection (1).

(4) Where default is made in complying with subsection (1), the Central Bank may call or direct the calling of an annual general meeting and give such ancillary or consequential directions as it thinks expedient, including directions modifying or supplementing the operation of the rules of the society in relation to the calling, holding and conduct of the meeting.

(5) Notwithstanding anything in the rules of a society, the business which may be dealt with at the annual general meeting may include any resolution (including as special resolution or a conversion resolution).