Section 8: Creation of new local authority

8. Creation of new local authority (1) The President may, by Proclamation, create a new local authority and extend this Act to that authority. (2) Where a new local authority is created under subsection (1), the President may, in the Proclamation creating it— (a) appoint suitable persons to act as Councillors for that local authority; (b) fix the date on which the Councillors appointed under paragraph (a) shall retire from office; and (c) fix such date, time and place for the first election of Councillors or appoint persons to perform those duties, and make such temporary modifications to this Act, applying to that local authority, as may appear necessary to him for those provisions to be applicable to the first constitution of that local authority. (3) The date, time and place fixed by Proclamation, and any person appointed by Proclamation to perform any duty, shall, as regards the local authority created by the Proclamation, be respectively substituted in any provisions applied by the Proclamation for the date, time, place and person referred to in those provisions, and the person referred to in the Proclamation shall have the like functions and be subject to the like obligations, as the officer and person referred to in those provisions. (4) Where a new local authority is created under subsection (1), this Act and every other enactment shall apply to that local authority and where the first Lord Mayor, Deputy Lord Mayor, Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, Councillor or any of them are named in the Proclamation, shall apply as if they were elected or appointed under this Act and, where they are not so named, shall apply to their first election. (5) Where the President creates a new local authority under subsection (1), the Minister shall, by regulations, amend the First, Second, Third or Fourth Schedule, as the case may be, to make provision for that new local authority, including its boundaries.