Section 8: Termination of appointment
consolidated text (as at 2011). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
8. Termination of appointment
(1) Subject to subsection (5), the Minister may, by regulations, terminate
the appointment of a commission.
(2) Where the Minister terminates the appointment of a commission, the
regulations shall, unless another commission is appointed in its stead, make
provision for the election of Councillors to the suspended local authority
which that commission replaced.
(3) Regulations made under subsection (1) may, notwithstanding this Act
or the Representation of the People Act—
(a) fix a date for the nomination of candidates, the election, the poll
and the return of Councillors;
(b) subject to subsection (4), fix the term of office of the Councillors
to be elected;
(c) amend section 11 (2) of the the Local Government Act for the
purpose of determining the date of the next general election of
Councillors following that specified in the regulations.
(4) A term of office fixed under subsection (3) (b) shall not exceed 6 years.
(5) The members shall continue to hold office until the day following the
date on which Councillors are returned at an election held under regulations
made under subsection (1).
[S. 8 amended by s. 165 (10) (b) of Act 36 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011.]
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