1 DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS TRUST VERITAS MAKES EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE PROVISION OF RELIABLE INFORMATION, BUT CANNOT TAKE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION SUPPLIED. Act No. 1 of 2008. Gazetted: Thursday 24th January 2008 (General Notice 16A/2008). Commencement: Thursday 24th January 2008 ACT To amend the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13], the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15] and the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:13] (No. 25 of 2004); and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing. ENACTED by the President and the Parliament of Zimbabwe. PART I PRELIMINARY 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Local Government Laws Amendment Act, 2008. PART II AMENDMENTS TO RURAL DISTRICT COUNCILS ACT [CHAPTER 29:13] 2 Amendment of section 2 of Cap. 29:13 Section 2 (“Interpretation”) (1) of the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13] (hereinafter in this Part called the “principal Act”) is amended by the insertion of the following definition— ““Commission” means the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission appointed in terms of section 61 of the Constitution;”. 3 Amendment of section 8 of Cap. 29:13 Section 8 (“Establishment and naming of councils and division of areas into wards”) of the principal Act is amended— (a) in subsection (1) by the repeal of paragraph (c) and the substitution of— “(c) after consultation with the Commission, divide a council area into any number of wards.”; (b) in subsection (2) by the repeal of paragraph (a). 1