Section 9: Status and acts of associations
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
9. Status and acts of associations
(1) A registered association shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal bearing its name and shall have all the rights and
powers of a natural person.
(2) Notwithstanding any other enactment, but subject to subsection (3),
an officer may, when acting in accordance with the rules of the association,
bind the association in the same manner as if his appointment were made by
authentic deed.
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(3) No property worth more than 3,000 rupees and belonging to a registered association shall be disposed of, pledged, mortgaged or charged unless
the transaction has been approved by special resolution.
(4) A registered association may sue and be sued under its corporate
name, and service of any notice or process by or on the secretary shall be
service on behalf of or on the association.
(5) Subject to section 15 (3), any communication or notice addressed to
a registered association shall be deemed to have been duly sent if forwarded
to the office of the association or, in the case of a foreign association, to its
principal place of business in Mauritius.
(6) The secretary shall give written notice to the Registrar of any change
in the address of the office of the association or, in the case of a foreign
association of its principal place of business in Mauritius, within 14 days of
the change.
[S. 9 reprinted by Reprint 1 of 1983.]