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New Brunswick stands fully covered: its own filings and guidance stand in the books beside the federal ones.
The bylaws stand in the founding documents, with the name, the purposes and the head office.
The by-laws stand in the founding documents: they set the classes of membership, the qualification for membership and the removal of a member’s name, and the directors’ by-laws set the rules of the company’s meetings. Binds: New Brunswick companies without capital stock (Companies Act, s. 18).
The law’s own words
“the company may, in the absence of other express provisions therefor in the letters patent, make by-laws to determine the qualification for membership and for the removal of the names of those members who may cease to be qualified”
Companies Act (New Brunswick), s. 18(2)(d) · Read it at New Brunswick · Verified 2026-11-11
“no by-law of the company for the removal of the name of a member from the company registry has any force or effect whatever until approved of by at least two-thirds of the votes cast at a special general meeting of the members of the company duly called for considering the same”
Companies Act (New Brunswick), s. 18(2)(j) · Read it at New Brunswick · Verified 2026-11-11
“No by-law made under this section is effective until it has been confirmed by at least two-thirds of the votes cast at a general or special meeting of the members duly called for considering the by-law.”
Companies Act (New Brunswick), s. 13.1(4) · Read it at New Brunswick · Verified 2026-11-11
“The directors may administer the affairs of the company in all things … and may make by-laws not contrary to law or to the letters patent of the company or to this Act, as to the following matters: … (e) the time and place for the holding of the annual meetings of the company, the calling of meetings, regular and special, of the board of directors and of the company, the quorum, the requirements as to proxies, and the procedure in all things at such meetings”
Companies Act (New Brunswick), s. 96(1) · Read it at New Brunswick · Verified 2026-11-11