CHAPTER 35:08
AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
Preliminary

    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]

PART I
Preliminary (ss 1-2)

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.

PART II
Agricultural Management Associations (ss 3-27)

3.    Commissioner

    There shall be a Commissioner of Agricultural Management Associations.

4.    Register of agricultural management associations

    The Commissioner shall keep a register of agricultural management associations registered under this Act and shall enter therein the particulars required by this Act to be so entered.

5.    Association of five or more persons

    (1) Where five or more individuals, all of whom shall be citizens of Botswana, wish to be associated for the purpose of undertaking a collective agricultural venture, they may form an agricultural management association for that purpose and apply to the Commissioner for registration under this Act.

    (2) An application for registration under this Act shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed and shall have attached thereto a copy of the constitution of the proposed association.

    (3) Where the collective agricultural venture involves the use and exploitation of tribal land, the Commissioner shall forthwith transmit a copy of the application to the tribal land board concerned.