Chapter 29:15 URBAN COUNCILS ACT (5) The President may, by statutory instrument, at the request of a council at any time after the establishment of the council, exercise, mutatis mutandis, all or any of the powers referred to in subsection (4) as if any reference therein to the first-mentioned area included a reference to the whole or any part of the council area. (6) Where the President has— (a) in terms of subsection (3) transferred or apportioned any property or assets to a municipality or town, the ownership of such property or assets shall vest in that council with effect from such date as may be specified by the President and, in the case of immovable property, a Registrar of Deeds shall, at the request of that council, cause, free of charge, the name of that municipality or town to be substituted as the owner of the property concerned in the appropriate register in the Deeds Registry and on the deeds relating to that property; (b) given any direction in terms of subsection (3), the person to whom that direction has been given shall forthwith comply with that direction. (7) The necessary costs, charges and expenses which are incurred by a municipality or town under or as a result of or in connection with any declaration or direction issued by the President in terms of this section shall be paid and satisfied out of the funds of the municipality or town, as the case may be. (8) Any municipality or town established in terms of subsection (1) shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and shall be capable of suing and being sued and generally of doing, suffering and performing such acts and things as, by this Act and any other law affecting such municipality or town, it may do, suffer and perform. 5 Extended systems of local government (1) Whenever he considers it desirable for the establishment of— (a) a system of local government between several local authorities; or (b) a system of local government involving the exercise of the functions of a council in relation to one or more areas outside the council area; or (c) a system of local government involving features of both systems referred to paragraphs (a) and (b); the President may, without derogation from the powers conferred upon him by any other provision of this Act and after any local authority concerned has been consulted, by proclamation in the Gazette— (i) authorize or require a council to exercise any of the functions conferred or imposed upon it in terms of this Act in relation to— A. the area of another local authority to the exclusion of the exercise of those functions by the local authority concerned; or B. any area outside the area of a local authority; (ii) make provision for the representation upon the council of the members of another local authority where the council has been authorized or required to exercise functions in relation to the area of the local authority concerned; (iii) exercise, mutatis mutandis, all or any of the powers referred to in section four in relation to any of the local authorities forming part of any system of local government for which provision has been made in terms of this section; (iv) give such directions as he may consider just and necessary or expedient to give effect to the establishment and operation of any system of local government for which provision has been made in terms of this section. (2) The President may, at any time after the establishment of any system of local government referred to in subsection (1) and after any local authority concerned has been consulted, by proclamation in the Gazette, exercise, mutatis mutandis, all or any of the powers referred to in subsection (1). 14