Co-Operative Societies Act 2008
200.
Deposits
1. Subject to section
16, a credit union may, without the authority, aid, assistance or intervention
of any other person or official—
a.
receive
deposits from any person, whatever his age, status or condition in life whether
or not that person is qualified by the law to enter into ordinary contracts;
and
b.
pay
any or all of the deposits and any or all of the interest on the deposit to or
to the order of that person unless, before payment, the money so deposited is
claimed by some other person—
i.
in
any action or proceeding to which the credit union is a party and in respect of
which service of a writ or other process originating such action or proceeding
has been made on the credit union; or
ii.
in
any other action or proceeding pursuant to which an injunction or order made by
the Court requiring the credit union not to make payment of the money or to
make payment of it to a person other than the depositor has been served on the
credit union, and in that case the money so deposited may be paid to the depositor
with the consent of the claimant or to the claimant with the consent of the
depositor.
2. Deposits may be
accepted in the manner and form and on any conditions that may be prescribed in
the Regulations.