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Show the members the figures
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Nova Scotia stands fully covered: its own filings and guidance stand in the books beside the federal ones.
The directors approve the statements, and the members see them at the annual meeting — including what directors were paid.
The members see the year’s figures at the annual general meeting — the balance sheet and the statement of income and expenditure, audited and signed — and any member may have a copy of the memorandum and by-laws. Binds: Nova Scotia societies.
The law’s own words
“Every society shall hold an annual general meeting in the Province and fourteen days thereafter shall file with the Registrar a statement in the form of a balance sheet showing general particulars of its liabilities and assets and a statement of its income and expenditure in the preceding year audited and signed by its auditor or, if there is no auditor, by two directors.”
Nova Scotia Societies Act, s. 19 · Read it at Nova Scotia · Verified 2026-11-11
“The members of a society shall be the subscribers to the memorandum and those persons admitted to membership of the society according to the by-laws.”
Nova Scotia Societies Act, s. 15(1) · Read it at Nova Scotia · Verified 2026-11-11
“Subject to the by-laws, … every member of a society shall have a vote.”
Nova Scotia Societies Act, s. 15(2)(b) · Read it at Nova Scotia · Verified 2026-11-11
“Subject to the society’s by-laws, a meeting of a society may be held entirely or partially by telephonic or electronic means and a member who, through those means, votes at the meeting or establishes a communications link to the meeting is deemed, for the purpose of this Act, to be present at the meeting.”
Nova Scotia Societies Act, s. 15A · Read it at Nova Scotia · Verified 2026-11-11
“Every society shall furnish to a member at his request, and on payment of such fee, not exceeding fifty cents, as is fixed by its by-laws, a copy of its memorandum and by-laws.”
Nova Scotia Societies Act, s. 23 · Read it at Nova Scotia · Verified 2026-11-11
Nova Scotia Societies Act, section 19
“Every society shall hold an annual general meeting in the Province and fourteen days thereafter shall file with the Registrar a statement in the form of a balance sheet showing general particulars of its liabilities and assets and a statement of its income and expenditure in the preceding year audited and signed by its auditor or, if there is no auditor, by two directors.”
Source: Nova Scotia Legislature — Societies Act, RSNS 1989, c. 435, s. 19 · Checked 2026-11-11
Nova Scotia Societies Act, sections 15 and 15A
“The members of a society shall be the subscribers to the memorandum and those persons admitted to membership of the society according to the by-laws.” “Subject to the society’s by-laws, a meeting of a society may be held entirely or partially by telephonic or electronic means and a member who, through those means, votes at the meeting or establishes a communications link to the meeting is deemed, for the purpose of this Act, to be present at the meeting.”
Source: Nova Scotia Legislature — Societies Act, RSNS 1989, c. 435, ss. 15, 15A · Checked 2026-11-11