Local Government Act - Kenya Law Reports

56 CAP. 265 Local Government
[Rev. 2010
Inspection of minutes
and adjournment of
meetings
Staff committees
and joint staff
committees.
of the subcommittee if, before that meeting they are confirmed
at the meeting of the committee which appointed
the subcommittee, or at a meeting of the local authority
which appointed such committee by a majority of the
members of the subcommittee who were present at the
subcommittee meeting to which the minutes relate.
(2) The minutes of the proceedings of a meeting of a committee, a
subcommittee or a joint committee, when signed by a person describing
himself as or appearing to have been the chairman of the meeting at
which the minutes are confirmed, whether that meeting is a meeting
of the committee, the subcommittee or the joint committee to which
the minutes relate or a meeting of the local authority or committee at
which the minutes of the committee or subcommittee, as the case may
be, are confirmed shall in the absence of proof of error, be deemed to
be a correct record of the proceedings of the meeting of which they
purport to be the minutes.
(3) The names of the members present at a meeting of a committee,
a subcommittee or a joint committee shall be recorded in the minutes
thereof.
(4) Whenever the minutes of the proceedings of a committee, a
subcommittee or a joint committee have been recorded and confirmed,
such meeting shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have
been duly convened and held, and the committee, subcommittee or joint
committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have
had power to deal with the matters referred to in the minutes.
102. Sections 82 and 83 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply respectively
to the minutes of, and to adjournment of meetings of, a committee,
subcommittee and joint committee:
Provided that section 82 shall only apply to the minutes of a
committee, subcommittee or joint committee which exercises delegated
powers and to the minutes of any other committee, subcommittee or
joint committee when such minutes have been adopted by the local
authority.
103. (1) Where a local authority has appointed a joint staff
committee comprising representatives of both the local authority and its
employees, subsection (5) of section 89 shall not apply to membership
of such committee.
(2) Where a local authority has appointed a staff committee or a
joint staff committee then no representative of a local authority on such
a committee shall be a person who is a member of a trade union whose