Local Councils (Delegation of Enforcement) (Amendment)

L.N. 2 of 2011

LOCAL COUNCILS ACT

(CAP. 363)

Local Councils (Delegation of Enforcement) (Amendment)

Order, 2011

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 33(1), 36(6)

and 72 of the Local Councils Act, the Prime Minister has made the

following order:-

The title of this order is the Local Councils (Delegation Citation.

of Enforcement) (Amendment) Order, 2011 and it shall be read

and construed as one with the Local Councils (Delegation of

Enforcement) Order, 2000 hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 32 of 2000.

Iommediately after the words “Local Councils” in article Amends article 1 of

1 of the principal Order, there shall be added the words “and the principal Order.

Regional Committees”.

Article 2 of the principal Order shall be amended as Amends article 2 of

(a) in sub-article (1) thereof, immediately after the

words “Joint Committee”, there shall be added the words “or

Regional Committee”;

(b) for sub-article (2) thereof, for the words from “The

aforementioned delegation” to the words “Second Schedule:”

there shall be substituted the following

“(2) The aforementioned delegation shall take

effect in relation to each Local Council or Regional

Committee as from the date shown against that Local

Council or Joint Committee or Regional Committee in

the Second Schedule:”; and

(c) immediately after sub-article (2) thereof, there shall

be inserted the following new sub-article

“(3) The Minister may by Order withdraw

the delegation given to any Local Council or Joint

Committee or Regional Committee and such Order shall

come into effect as from the date shown in the Second

Schedule

Provided that when that date is established, any

notice of contravention issued by a Local Council

shall remain valid and any proceedings before a

tribunal or court shall be continued in the name of that

Local Council until all proceedings in respect of that

contravention have been exhausted.”.

In article 3 of the principal Order, immediately after the

words “Joint Committee” there shall be inserted the words “or

Regional Committee”.

In the First Schedule to the principal Order, immediately

at the end thereof, there shall be listed the following

“Motor Vehicles (Carriage of Goods by Road)

Regulations, 2003 (L.N. 146 of 2003) Regulation 68”.

The Second Schedule to the principal Order shall be

amended as follows

(a) for the words “(Article 2(2)” there shall be

susbstituted the words “Article 2 (2) and (3); and

(b) immediately after the column entitled “Effective

date of delegation” there shall be inserted a new third column

to be entitled “Termination date of delegation”.

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