No. 2456
Government Gazette 22 December 2000
Act No. 25, 2000
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TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES ACT, 2000
(b) if no Chief’s Council or Traditional Council for that community
exists, the members of that community who are authorised thereto
by the customary law of that community,
shall apply on the prescribed form to the Minister for approval to make such
designation, and the application shall state the following particulars:
(i) The name of the traditional community in question;
(ii) the communal area inhabited by that community;
(iii) the estimated number of members comprising such community;
(iv) the reasons for the proposed designation;
(v) the name, office and traditional title, if any, of the candidate to be
designated as chief or head of the traditional community;
(vi) the customary law applicable in that community in respect of such
designation; and
(vii) such other information as may be prescribed or the Minister may
require.
(2) On receipt of an application complying with subsection (1), the
Minister shall, subject to subsection (3), in writing approve the proposed
designation set out in such application.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), if in respect of an application
referred to in subsection (1) the Minister is of the opinion that (a) (i)
the person sought to be designated as a chief or head of a
traditional community represents a group of persons who are
members of a traditional community in respect of which a
chief or head of a traditional community has been designated
and recognised under this Act; or
(ii)
such group of persons do not constitute an independent
traditional community inhabiting a common communal area
detached from another traditional community; or
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