Co-Operative Societies Act 2008
118.
Receipt of deposits from minors
1. A society may receive
deposits from a minor and pay to such minor such deposit together with the
interest accrued thereon.
2. Any deposit made on
behalf of a minor may, together with any interest accrued thereon, be paid to
the parent of the minor or, where the minor is under the care of a guardian, to
such guardian for the use of the minor.
3. For the purposes of
this section the mother of a minor born out of wedlock is the guardian of such
minor, except where-
a.
there
is subsisting a court order depriving her of the custody of such minor, in
which case the guardian shall be the person named in the court order; or
b.
the
minor customarily resides with some person other than the mother in which case
that person shall be the guardian.
1.
2.
3.
4. In paragraph (b) of
subsection (3) “customarily resides with” includes “is under the care of”.
5. The receipt of a
minor or his parent or guardian, as the case may be, for money received under
this section shall be a good and sufficient discharge of the liability of the
society in respect of that money.
6. Where a person under
a legal disability, other than minority, is entitled to receive money from a
society such money may be paid by the society to the Registrar of the High
Court to the credit of such person under such disability; and the receipt of
the Registrar of the High Court or of the person under disability, as the case
may be, shall be a good and sufficient discharge of the liability of the
society to pay that money.
7. The Registrar of the
High Court may retain out of any money so paid to him a sum not exceeding one
percent thereof for fees of office and shall pay or apply the remainder to or
for the care, maintenance, education or benefit of such person under
disability.