URBAN COUNCILS ACT Chapter 29:15 desirable to ensure the proper dissolution of the municipality or town or to do justice between the council and the local authority, as the case may be. (4) Where an area, hereinafter called the first-mentioned area, whether such area consists of the whole or part of a local authority area or otherwise, is being included within a council area or a separate council is being established for that area, the President may, by statutory instrument, exercise all or any of the following powers— (a) direct that all or any of the by-laws, regulations, rules or orders existing in respect of the first-mentioned area shall remain in force within the whole or any part of such area as if they were by-laws made by the council under this Act; (b) empower the Minister to authorize the council to suspend the operation of all or any of its by-laws within the whole or any part of the first-mentioned area; (c) authorize the council to make such special by-laws as it considers advisable for the whole or any part of the first-mentioned area or any part of the first-mentioned area; (d) declare that any existing valuation roll in respect of the whole or any part of the firstmentioned area which has been prepared in accordance with this Act or any other law shall be deemed a portion of the valuation roll of the council concerned as though it had been prepared in accordance with this Act; (e) declare that any existing voters’ roll in respect of the whole or any part of the firstmentioned area which has been prepared in accordance with the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:01] or any other law shall be deemed to be the voters’ roll of the council as though it had been prepared in accordance with the Electoral Act [Chapter 2:01]; [Paragraph as amended by s. 40 of Act No. 21 of 1997.] (e1) direct that an election shall take place, either in the first-mentioned area or in the whole council area, in such manner and within such period as the President may direct; [Paragraph inserted by s. 17 of Act No. 21 of 1997.] (f) authorize the council to waive the collection of any rates or to levy different rates or different reductions in rates in respect of different classes of property and properties of different values within the first-mentioned area as he may consider equitable and, for such purpose, he may fix the method by which each such different rate or reduction in rates shall be assessed from time to time; (g) authorize the council in lieu of the collection of rates to levy within the first-mentioned area a levy in terms of such of the provisions of the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13], as he may direct to apply, whether or not such area prior to such inclusion was in the area of a rural district council, and for such purposes he may exercise all or any of the following powers— (i) fix the amount of the unit of levy; (ii) modify any or all of the provisions of the said Act in its application to such area; (iii) declare that an additional unit or units of levy may be levied as aforesaid on improved land; (iv) declare that such provisions of this Act as he may specify shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in relation to such levy as if it were a rate; (h) declare the first-mentioned area to be a temporary ward or wards for the purpose of elections in terms of this Act, fix the number of councillors to be elected for such temporary ward or wards and define the period for which they are to hold office and authorize the holding of elections of such councillors; (i) as to any matter or thing of any description whatsoever, whether or not it is of a similar nature to any matter or thing referred to in paragraphs (a) to (h), give such directions, including the application, non-application, suspension or modification wholly, partly, or subject to any variation or restriction of any provisions of this Act, other than this section, sections twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-five, forty and forty-one (with the exception of paragraph (a) of subsection (1)), or any other law, as he may consider equitable and necessary for the proper administration of the first-mentioned area or for the proper merging of the first-mentioned area into the council area. 13