16 Government Gazette 22 December 2000 Act No. 25, 2000 No. 2456 TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES ACT, 2000 traditional community establishes in conflict with the provisions of this Act another authority purporting to be a traditional authority for such group, and any member of such last-mentioned authority exercises or performs any of the functions contemplated in paragraphs (b) and (h) of subsection (1) and paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3) of this section (a) any such act shall be null and void; and (b) such member shall be guilty of an offence, and upon conviction be liable to a fine of N$4 000 or to imprisonment for a period of twelve months or to both such fine and imprisonment. Designation of chief or head of traditional community 4. (1) Subject to sections 5 and 6, members of a traditional community who are authorised thereto by the customary law of that community, may designate in accordance with that law (a) one person from the royal family of that traditional community, who shall be instituted as the chief or head, as the case may t»e, of that traditional community; or (b) if such community has no royal family, any member of that traditional community, who shall be instituted as head of that traditional community. (2) The qualifications for designation and the tenure of, removal from and succession to the office of chief or head of a traditional community shall be regulated by the customary law of the traditional community in respect of which such chief or head of a traditional community is designated. Prior notification of designation of chief or head of traditional community 5. (1) If a traditional community intends to designate a chief or head of a traditional community in terms of this Act (a) the Chief’s Council or the Traditional Council of that community, as the case may be; or page 16