No. 2456 Act No. 25, 2000 Government Gazette 22 December 2000 13 TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES ACT, 2000 clans which share a common ancestry, language, cultural heritage, customs and traditions, who recognises a common traditional authority and inhabits a common communal area, and may include the members of that traditional community residing outside the common communal area; “Traditional Council” means a Traditional Council established by section 9; “traditional Councillor” means a councillor of a traditional community appointed or elected in accordance with section 10; and “traditional leader” means a chief, a head of a traditional community, a senior traditional councillor, or a traditional councillor designated and recognized or appointed or elected, as the case may be, in accordance with this Act, and by whatever traditional title named. Establishment of traditional authorities 2. (1) Subject to this Act, every traditional community may establish for such community a traditional authority consisting of(a) the chief or head of that traditional community, designated and recognized in accordance with this Act; and (b) senior traditional councillors and traditional councillors appointed or elected in accordance with this Act. (2) A traditional authority shall in the exercise of its powers and the execution of its duties and functions have jurisdiction over the members of the traditional community in respect of which it has been established. Powers, duties and functions of traditional authorities and members thereof 3. (1) Subject to section 16, the functions of a traditional authority, in relation to the traditional community which it leads, shall be to promote peace and welfare amongst the members of that community, supervise and ensure the observance of the customary law of that community by its members, and in particular to (a) ascertain the customary law applicable in that traditional page 13