Local Councils (Association) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations, 1998

L.N. 199 of 1998

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT, 1993

(ACT NO. XV OF 1993)

Local Councils (Association) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations, 1998

IN exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (3) of section

37 and by section 72 of the Local Councils Act, 1993, the Minister for

Housing and Local Councils, has made the following regulations:-

These regulations may be cited as the Local Councils

(Association) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations, 1998, and shall be

read and construed as one with the Local Councils (Association)

Regulations, 1994, hereinafter referred to as the "the principal

regulations" .

For paragraph (2) of regulation 6 of the principal regulations,

there shall be substituted the following:-

"(2) The election shall be held every two years on the second

Saturday in September following a notice to that effect by the

Electoral Commission

Provided that if the election for the Committee is due to be

held within three months before the holding of General Elections,

or Referenda, or elections for Local Councils, or the ordinary annual

session of the Congress, the election may be postponed to a date

determined by the Minister, but in any case not later than three

months following the holding of such General Elections, the

Referenda, the elections for Local Councils, or the Congress

session, as the case may be

Provided further that in the event that the election is so

postponed, the term of office of the Councillors as members of the

Committee shall be extended by the same period by which the

election has been postponed and the term of office of the newly

elected Councillors as members of the Committee shall be reduced

by the same period by which the term of office of the previous

Councillors has been extended.".

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