Section 4: Powers and duties

4. Powers and duties (1) Subject to subsection (2), a commission and its members appointed to replace a local authority and its councillors shall have and exercise all the rights, privileges and powers and perform all the duties which, under any other enactment, are vested in or imposed on the local authority or the Councillors. (2) A commission may, with the Minister’s approval— (a) regulate its meetings and proceedings, and determine its quorum; (b) appoint committees or sub-committees, consisting of such number of its members as it thinks fit; (c) regulate the meetings and proceedings, and determine the quorum, of any committee or sub-committee; (d) delegate to a committee or sub-committee, with or without condition or restriction, any of its powers other than the power to levy rates or borrow money.