URBAN COUNCILS ACT Chapter 29:15 (a) the Minister may, on behalf of the council, provide the facilities at the expense of the council; (b) any expenditure incurred by the Minister in providing such facilities may be recovered by the Minister by proceedings in a competent court against the council, and the Minister’s certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the amount due by the council. (7) Where the administration, control and management of a local government area has been vested in a person other than a local council, this section shall apply, mutatis mutandis, as if such person were a council. 10 Effect of incorporation of existing local authority in a council area (1) If the whole of a town area, rural district council area or local government area for which a local board has been established is included within the council area of another council, the following provisions shall, in addition to any declaration, direction, authority or requirement made or given in terms of subsection (3) or (4) of section four, apply— (a) all rates, taxes, levies and other charges, including surcharges, due or payable to, or recoverable by, the town council, rural district council or local board, as the case may be, shall be vested in and be recoverable by the council concerned; (b) all works and undertakings authorized to be executed and all rights, liabilities and engagements existing by or against or in respect of the town council, rural district council or local board, as the case may be, shall be vested in and attached to and be enforced, carried on and prosecuted by, or against that council and no action, suit or proceeding shall abate or be discontinued or prejudicially affected by the inclusion of the said area within the council area; (c) all creditors of the town council, rural district council or local board concerned shall have the same rights and remedies against the council concerned as it had against the town council, rural district council or local board, as the case may be, before the inclusion of the area; (d) all property, movable or immovable, and all moneys of, or vested in, the town council, rural district council or local board concerned shall become the property of, or vest in, the municipality or town with effect from the date of the inclusion of the area; (e) all resolutions, directions, licences, permits, registrations, acts and other things passed, given, issued, made, commenced or done by the town council, rural district council or local board, as the case may be, including any delegation of powers, shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as though they were resolutions, directions, licences, permits, registrations, acts or things passed, given, issued, made, commenced or done, as the case may be, by the council concerned; (f) any financial accounts and records of the town council, rural district council or local board which have not been balanced and audited in terms of this Act or the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13] as the case may be, shall be balanced, audited or otherwise dealt with by the council concerned in terms of this Act as though they were the accounts and records of such council: Provided that where the town council, rural district council or local board had previously appointed an auditor to audit its accounts, the council concerned shall reappoint such auditor for the purposes of the final audit of those accounts if he is willing to accept such appointment. (2) In the case of immovable property the ownership of which has vested in the municipality or town in terms of paragraph (d) of subsection (1), the Registrar of Deeds shall, at the request of the council, cause, free of charge, the name of that municipality or town to be substituted as the owner of the property concerned in an appropriate register in the Deeds Registry and on the deeds relating to that property. 11 Advertising of intention to exercise powers under section 4 or 6 (1) Before the exercise by the President of his powers in terms of subsection (1) or (2) of section four or subsection (1) or (2) of section six, the Minister shall publish notices in not less than three issues of a newspaper stating that— 19