Local Government Act - Kenya Law Reports

Rev. 2010]
Local Government CAP. 265 33
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), rules
made by the Electoral Commission may provide that a person who is
convicted by any court of any offence that is prescribed by law that is
connected with election of members of the National Assembly or of a
local authority or who is reported to be guilty of such an offence by the
Court trying an election petition shall not be qualified to be nominated
for election as an elected councillor or to be nominated, appointed or
otherwise selected as a councillor of a local authority for such period
(not exceeding five years) following his conviction or, as the case may
be, following the report of the Court as may be so prescribed.
53C. Any rules made by the Electoral Commission under sections
53, 53A, or 53B may, in order to permit any person who has been
adjudged or declared to be of unsound mind, sentenced to death or
imprisonment, or adjudged or declared bankrupt, or any person who
has been convicted of an offence referred to in paragraph 2 (d) of the
Fifth Schedule, to appeal against the decision in accordance with any
law, provided that, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by
any rules made by the Electoral Commission, the decision shall not,
as regards registration in any local authority area, take effect for the
purposes of paragraph 2 or, as the case may be, paragraph 3 of the Fifth
Schedule until such time as may be prescribed.
54. (1) A county, town or municipal council may at any time
make a representation to the appropriate authority for the alteration of
the boundaries of any electoral area, or the alteration of the number of
electoral areas, in its area.
(2) Where an urban council has made proposals to the county
council and is aggrieved by the refusal or neglect of that council to
make a representation to the appropriate authority under subsection (1),
the urban council may itself make a representation to the appropriate
authority as to the whole or any part of the proposals.
(3) In the case of a representation relating to electoral areas of
a county or of a county division or of a local council area, the council
making the representation shall as soon as the representation has been
made—
(a) in the case of a representation relating only to the alteration
of the boundaries of electoral areas, send a copy thereof to
the council of every county division in the county which
is wholly or in part comprised in any of the electoral areas
proposed to be altered; and
(b) in every other case, send a copy thereof to the council of
Rules under sections
53, 53A and 53B.
L.N. 105/1965,
10 of 1997, Sch.
Alteration of
electoral areas.
L.N. 634/1963,
31 of 1971, Sch.,
11 of 1984, Sch.,
1 of 1992, s. 9.