Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I move amendment No. 51:
In page 23, after line 21, to insert the following:
“Insertion of Sixth Schedule to Principal Act
58. The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following Schedule after the Fifth
Schedule:“SIXTH SCHEDULESection 13
MATTERS TO BE PROVIDED FOR IN RULES OF CORPORATE CREDIT UNION
1. The name of the credit union, which shall comply with section 10.
2. The place which is to be the registered office of the credit union to
which all communications and notices to the credit union may be
addressed.
3. The qualifications required for, and the terms of, admission to
membership of the credit union.
4. The mode of holding meetings and the method of notice, including
provision as to the quorum necessary for the transaction of any
description of business, and the mode of making, altering or rescinding
rules.
5. The appointment and removal of the board of directors and any
principal Committee and of other officers and their respective powers
and remuneration.
6. The procedure in accordance with which a person may be designated
or de-designated under section 67(4) and the circumstances in which a
person may be so designated or de-designated.
7. Determination of the maximum amount of the interest in the shares of
the credit union which may be held by any member.
8. Provision for the mode of withdrawal of shares and payment of the
balance due on shares on withdrawing from the credit union.
9. The mode and circumstances in which loans to members and, where
relevant, their members and loans to members of other credit unions
on a referral basis, are to be made and repaid.
10. Provision for the custody and use of the credit union’s seal.
11. Provision for the audit of accounts by one or more auditors appointed
by the credit union.
12. Whether disputes between the credit union and any of its members,
and, where relevant, their members, or any person claiming by or
through any member or member of the credit union’s member or under
the rules, shall be settled by reference to the Circuit Court or
arbitration.
13. Provision for the withdrawal of members from the credit union and for
the claims of the members of the credit union in liquidation.
14. Provision for dealing with directors who are more than 90 consecutive
days in arrears under a debt obligation to the credit union up to and
including the suspension or removal from the board of such
directors.”.”.
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