Local Government Act - Kenya Law Reports

50 CAP. 265 Local Government
[Rev. 2010
so appointed, with or without restrictions or conditions, as the local
authority thinks fit, any function exercisable by the local authority either
with respect to the whole or any part of the area under the jurisdiction
of the local authority, except the power of levying a rate, or borrowing
money or of making by-laws.
(2) Every councillor shall be elected by the council to serve
on at least one committee and in appointing its committees a local
authority shall, where political parties have taken part in an election,
or where special interests have been nominated to the local authority
under this Act, make its appointments in such a manner that each
committee represents, so far as possible and reasonably practicable,
the representation of the political parties or such special interests in
the council.
(3) The chairman and the vice-chairman of a local authority
shall be ex officio members of every committee appointed by that local
authority under this section.
(4) The number of members of a committee appointed under
this section, their term of office, and the area, if any, within which
the committee is to exercise its authority, shall be fixed by the local
authority appointing it.
(5) A committee appointed under this section may include persons
who are not members of the local authority:
Provided that at least two-thirds of the members of every
committee shall be members of the local authority.
(6) Where the local authority has not appointed a chairman and
a vice-chairman, each committee appointed under this section shall at
its first meeting, before proceeding to any other business, elect its own
chairman and may elect a vice-chairman and the election shall, in the
event of equality of votes for two or more candidates, be determined
by lot between those candidates.
(7) Every member of a committee appointed under this section
who at the time of his appointment was a member of the local authority
by which he was appointed shall, upon ceasing to be a member of that
authority, also cease to be a member of the committee:
Provided that for the purposes of this section a member of a local
authority shall not be deemed to have ceased by reason of retirement
to be a member of the local authority, if he has been re-elected, renominated
or re-appointed a member thereof not later than the day of
his retirement.