Apply In-Person

1. The cooperative society may request a copy for Certificate of Registration from the Department of Cooperative Development.
2. The cooperative society must write to Director of Societies with a justification regarding the lost/damaged certificate requesting a replacement copy.
3. The cooperative society must submit the request on the letter head of the cooperative.
4. The Director of Societies will review the request submitted by the cooperative society.
5. After the Approval, the director re-issues a copy of the Certificate of Registration.
6. Applicant is then informed in writing that the certificate is ready for collection.
   

• No supporting document required
  

Cooperative Development
P.O.Box N-3028
Levy Building
Bay Street East
Nassau,
New Providence
The Bahamas
Tel. (242) 356-3152-4 or 323-6605
Fax. (242) 356-4622
E-mail: coopdevelopment@bahamas.gov.bs

coopbahamas@hotmail.com 

Opening hours: 9:00 am to  5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except public holidays.
Contact Address Details Link:Contact Link

Registered Cooperative Societies that have lost or damaged the Certificate of Registration

A processing fee of BS$20.00 is payable upon collection of the certificate.

There is no deadline for this service.

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A request for a replacement Certificate of Registration is processed within 2 weeks.

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver,
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

Please provide other instructions related to the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

A list which displays the kind of information which is required to complete the procedure.
e.g.
1. Date of Birth.
2. City or Country of Birth

Please provide the need for the procedure. e.g. Birth Certificate - why do we need to have a birth certificate?

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Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

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