No. 2456
Government Gazette 22 December 2000
Act No. 25, 2000
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TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES ACT, 2000
performance of their functions, and exercise or perform such other
powers, duties or functions as may be delegated or assigned to any
of them by such chief or head.
(2) The qualifications for appointment or election and the tenure of, and
removal from, office of a senior traditional councillor or traditional councillor
shall be regulated by the customary law of the traditional community in
respect of which such councillor is appointed or elected.
(3) A chief or head of a traditional community shall from time to time
appoint from amongst the members of his or her traditional community one
person as secretary, and such secretary shall perform such duties and functions
as may be assigned to him or her by that chief or head.
(4) Any chief or head of a traditional community who has in
accordance with this section appointed a senior traditional councillor or
traditional councillor or caused any such councillor to be elected shall notify
the Minister of such appointment or election in writing, specifying the name,
office, traditional title, if any, date of appointment or election of the senior
traditional councillor or traditional councillor concerned, and the name of the
traditional community in respect of which such senior traditional councillor or
traditional councillor has been appointed or elected.
(5) The Minister shall on receipt of a notice referred to in subsection (4)
make the appointment or election of a senior traditional councillor or
traditional councillor known by notice in the Gazette, setting out in such notice
the particulars referred to in that subsection with regard to such senior
traditional councillor or traditional councillor.
Use of traditional titles
11. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as precluding the
members of a traditional community from addressing a traditional leader by
the traditional title accorded to that office, but such traditional title shall not
derogate from, or add to, the status, powers, duties and functions associated
with the office of a traditional leader as provided for in this Act.
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