Local Councils (Association) (Amendment) Regulations, 2006

L.N. 193 of 2006

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT

(CAP. 363)

Local Councils (Association) (Amendment) Regulations, 2006

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 37(3) and 72

of the Local Councils Act, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister

for Justice and Home Affairs has made the following regulations

The title of these regulations is the Local Councils Citation.

(Association) (Amendment) Regulations, 2006, and they shall be read

and construed as one with the Local Councils (Association) S.L. 363.06

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

In subregulation (1) of regulation 6 of the principal Amends

regulations, for the words "to which the Councillor’s locality regulation

the principal

regulations.

belongs.", there shall be substituted the following

"to which the Councillor’s locality belongs

Provided also that where -

(i) at the election for the general list, the

candidates of a political party obtain in the aggregate more

than fifty per centum of all the valid votes cast at that

election, and this at the first count of all the votes, but the

candidates elected from that party both in the election from

the general list as well as that in the regional list do not

constitute in the total number more than fifty per centum of

all the members who from time to time constitute the

Executive Committee of the Association; or

(ii) at an election for the general list which is

contested by candidates from more than two political

parties and in which only candidates of two of such parties

are elected, the candidates of a political party who obtain a

percentage of all the valid votes cast at such election, as

credited to them by the Electoral Commission at the first

count of all the votes, which is greater than that obtained

by any one other party, but the number of candidates of

that particular party from the general list as well as from

the regional list does not constitute more than fifty per

centum of all the members who from time to time

constitute the Executive Committee of the Association,

the number of members of the Executive Committee of the

Association shall be increased by as many members as may be

necessary in order that the party obtaining more than fifty per

centum, or the larger percentage, of all the valid votes, as the

case may be, shall have one member more than the total of the

other candidates elected from the general and from the regional

lists of the other parties; and, in any such case, such candidate

or candidates shall be declared by the Electoral Commission to

be elected to fill the additional seat or seats created by this

proviso who, being candidates of the party last mentioned in the

general list, were credited by the Electoral Commission at the

last count, with the highest or next higher number of votes

without being elected.".