Local Government Act - Kenya Law Reports

Rev. 2010]
Local Government CAP. 265 59
(a) reference to the African District Council Ordinance, 1950,
and to any provisions thereof shall be substituted by reference
to this Act and to the corresponding provisions of this Act
respectively; and
(b) references to African District Councils in the titles thereof
shall be substituted by reference to local government; and
(c) references to any particular African District Council shall
be substituted by reference to the county council having
jurisdiction under this Act over the same area as that African
District Council had before the coming into operation of
this Act.
(6) The Minister may, with the agreement of the local authorities
concerned, at any time by order revoke an order constituting a joint board
under this section, or deemed to be constituted under this section, and
may in any such order provide for the dissolution of the board and for
winding-up the affairs of the board and for distributing, transferring or
otherwise disposing of the property and liabilities thereof, and for all
matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
105. (1) The powers and duties of, and the property, assets, rights,
debts, liabilities and obligations of, and the benefit and burden of all
contracts made by or on behalf of, a joint board shall not be affected
by the establishment under this Act of a new local authority in place of
any interested local authority and the new authority shall be deemed
to be an interested local authority in lieu of the local authority which
it replaces, and the order constituting any such joint board shall, to the
same extent, continue in force subject to references to such new local
authority being substituted for references to the local authority which
it replaces.
(2) In respect of a joint board constituted pursuant to a request
under section 104 (1) (a), each of the local authorities specified in
the order shall be an interested local authority for the purpose of this
section; and in respect of a joint board constituted pursuant to section
104 (1) (b), the local authority which was desirous of acting jointly with
the Government for the purpose specified in that paragraph shall be an
interested local authority for the purpose of this section.
106. Subject to any provisions to the contrary contained in an
order constituting a joint board, Part V and Part VI shall apply, mutatis
mutandis, to a joint board.
Change of status of
local authorities not
to affect joint boards.
Meetings and
proceedings at joint
boards.