Chapter 29:15 316. 317. 318. 319. 320. 321. URBAN COUNCILS ACT Correction of errors or omissions. Authentication or execution of orders, etc. Ballot or meeting of voters. Obstructing council. [Repealed] Savings and transitional provisions. FIRST SCHEDULE: Matters to be considered for City Status. SECOND SCHEDULE: Powers of Council. THIRD SCHEDULE: Matters in respect of which Council may make by-laws. AN ACT to provide for the establishment of municipalities and towns and the administration of municipalities and towns by local boards, municipal and town councils; to provide for the conferring of town and city status on growth points, municipalities and towns; to provide for the declaration of local government areas and the administration of local government areas by local boards; to confer functions and powers and impose duties upon municipal and town councils and local boards; to provide for the establishment of the Local Government Board and to provide for the functions thereof; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing. [Date of commencement: 22nd December, 1995.] PART I PRELIMINARY 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15]. 2 Interpretation (1) In this Act— “by-election” … [Definition repealed by s. 16 of Act No. 21 of 1997.] “by-law” means any by-law made by a council in terms of this Act or which is continued in force by virtue of section three hundred and twenty-three; “chairman” means the chairman of a town council who has been elected in terms of section one hundred and three; “chamber secretary” means the chamber secretary of a municipal council who has been appointed in terms of section one hundred and thirty-three; “combined private sewer” means a sewer, exclusive of soil pipes, waste pipes and vent pipes, for the purpose of conveying to a public sewer or a conserving tank or other receptacle the sewage from two or more private sewers and includes all other things necessary in connection therewith; “committee” means a committee of a council; “conserving tank” means any covered tank without overflow which— (a) is used for the reception and temporary retention of sewage; and (b) requires emptying at intervals; “consolidated revenue account” means the account into which all net surpluses and deficits from all accounts of the council, with the exception of all funds as defined in subsection (6) of section two hundred and eighty-six, the housing account referred to in section three hundred and one, the traditional beer account, the services levy account, the parking account and the capital account of the estates account, are transferred; “construction”, in relation to a building, includes the alteration, subdivision, conversion or reconstruction of, or the addition to, a building; “council” means a municipal council or town council; “council area”, in relation to— (a) a municipality, means the municipal area; (b) a town, means the town area; 8