This Law sets forth legal grounds for setting up, functioning, reorganization and liquidation of agricultural cooperatives (shirkats), regulates the rights and the duties thereof, and also the interrelations with other legal and natural persons. The Act consists of seven Chapters divided into 33 Articles: (1) general provisions; (2) membership; (3) managing body of agricultural cooperative (shirkat); (4) allotment of land to agricultural cooperative (shirkat), landownership, land use and water u