No. 2456
Act No. 25, 2000
Government Gazette 22 December 2000
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TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES ACT, 2000
Finance, may prescribe allowances payable in respect of the traditional
leaders, and the secretar y, referred to in subsection (1).
(b) Different allowances may be prescribed under paragraph (a), regard
being had to the status, duties and responsibilities of each office
referred to in that paragraph.
(3) Every traditional community in respect of whom more than six
persons have been appointed or elected as senior traditional councillors and
more than six persons have been appointed or elected as traditional
councillors, shall notify the Minister in writing of the names of those senior
traditional councillors and traditional councillors who shall be entitled to
receive allowances under this Act.
(4) Subsections (1) and (3) shall not be construed as preventing a
traditional community from paying allowances to senior traditional councillors
and traditional councillors who are not under those subsections entitled to
allowances.
Assets and Trust Fund of traditional community
18. (1) A traditional authority may with the consent of the members of
its traditional community acquire, purchase, lease, sell, or otherwise hold or
dispose of movable and immovable property in trust for that traditional
community, and shall have such rights in respect of the acquisition and
disposal of such property as may reasonably be necessary or expedient for the
carrying out of its functions under this Act.
(2) Any immovable property acquired as contemplated in subsection
(1) shall be registered in the name of the traditional authority concerned in
accordance with the provisions of the Deeds Registries Act, 1937 (Act No. 47
of 1937) or the Registration of Deeds in Rehoboth Act, 1976 (Act No. 93 of
1976).
(3) A traditional authority may with the consent of the members of its
traditional community establish a Community Trust Fund, to be held in trust
for the members of that traditional community, and towards which such
members may contribute for the purposes ofpage 29