Co-Operative Societies Act 2008
Part
VI Business of Society
101.
Marketing of produce through the society
1. A registered society
which has as one of its objects the marketing of any article or produce
obtained by the work or industry of its members may by its by-laws or
otherwise, contract with its members—
a.
that
every such member who produces any such article shall market the whole or any
specified amount, portion or description thereof to or through the society;
b.
that
any member who is proved or adjudged to have contravened the by-law or to have
acted in breach of the contract shall pay to the society liquidated damages in
a sum ascertained or assessed in such a manner as may be prescribed in the
by-laws.
2. A contract entered
into under this section shall not be questioned in any court on the ground that
it is a contract in restraint of trade.