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“(2) The mayor, the deputy mayor and chairperson of every committee of council shall not
be a member of, nor be entitled to attend any meeting, of the audit committee.”.
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New section substituted for section 100 of Cap. 29:15
Section 100 of the principal Act is repealed and substituted by—
“100 Special committees
(1) A special committee may at any time be appointed by a council subject to the
following provisions—
(a) that committee shall be appointed for a specific task and once that committee
has submitted a report thereon it shall be dissolved unless reconstituted by the
council for further investigation or consideration in connection with the
original task;
(b) that committee shall be composed of councillors or councillors and persons
who are not councillors and any such member of that special committee shall
be entitled to exercise a vote;
(c) the chairperson of that committee shall be a councillor;
(d) the quorum at any meeting of that committee shall be formed by such number
of members as the council may determine;
(e) a person who is not a councillor shall not be appointed or continue in his
appointment as a member of that committee if he or she would, if he or she
were a councillor, be disqualified in terms of section 41(1) (b) to (f) from being
nominated as or continuing in office as a councillor;
(f) no powers shall be delegated by the council to that committee;
(2) A special committee shall consist of such number of members, being not less than
three, as the council may determine.
(4) A special committee—
(a) at its first meeting after the appointment of the members thereto—
(i) shall, subject to subsection (1)(c), elect one of its members to be
chairperson; and
(ii) may elect one of its members to be vice-chairperson;
and
(b) may at any time, if the person elected as chairperson or vice-chairperson ceases to
be a member of the special committee, elect a member to replace him or her.
(5) No person, other than the members of, and the secretary to, a special committee
appointed in terms of subsection (1) and the town clerk, shall be present at a meeting of that
committee:
Provided that if the chairperson of that committee has invited an employee or other person
to attend a meeting in connection with the consideration of any matter, that employee or other
person may attend the meeting.”.
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