Section 37A: Resignation from group
This section is inserted by Act No 18 of 2023, section 4.
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
37A. Resignation from group
(1) For the purpose of section 37(3), a person who has been
elected as a Municipal City Councillor, Municipal Town Councillor
or Village Councillor shall be deemed to have resigned from his
group where –
(a) he gives notice in writing to the appropriate
Chief Executive; or
(b) his group gives notice in writing to the
appropriate Chief Executive that the Councillor
no longer forms part of the group.
(2) Where a group gives notice in writing under
subsection (1)(b), the notice shall –
(a) be duly signed by the leader, president,
secretary and 2 other members of the group
certifying that the Councillor no longer forms
part of the group; and
(b) be accompanied by a certified extract of the
minutes of proceedings of the meeting at which
decision was taken that the Councillor no longer
forms part of the group.
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Questions this section answers
- When is an elected Municipal or Village Councillor deemed to have resigned from their group?
- What must a group's notice contain when it says a Councillor no longer belongs to it?