LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION (AMENDMENT) LAW, 2016, KADUNA STATE

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION (AMENDMENT) LAW, 2016

 

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION

  1. Short Title
  2. Commencement
  3. Interpretation
  4. [Amendment of Principal Law]

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION (AMENDMENT) LAW, 2016

KADUNA STATE OF NIGERIA

LAW NO. 4 2016

A LAW TO AMEND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION LAW, 2012 (AS AMENDED)

 

 

Date of Commencement                              (28th March 2016)

 

Enactment

BE IT ENACTED by the House of Assembly of Kaduna State as follows:

 

Short Title

  1. This Law may be cited as the Local Government Administration (Amendment) Law, 2016.

 

Commencement

  1. This Law shall, come into operation on the 28th day of March 2016.

 

Interpretation

  1. In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires:

“Principal Law” means the Local Government Administration Law, 2012 (as amended).

 

[Amendment of Principal Law]

  1. The Principal Law is hereby amended in the following respects:

“14 (3) (a) The House of Assembly on the recommendation of the Executive Council may by resolution approve the establishment of an Interim Management Committee comprising of six (6) persons one of whom shall be the Chairman to oversee the affairs of the Council

PROVIDED that, one of the members not from the same area with the Chairman be made Vice Chairman.

(c)     The tenure for the Interim Management Committee shall be six (6) months.

(d)     Where at the expiration of the six (6) months provided in paragraph (c) above it becomes impracticable to hold election, the Governor shall present to the House of Assembly such information and detailed particulars as are necessary and the House of Assembly may by simple resolution extend the term for a further period of six (6) months within which election must be conducted.

(e)     The performance of the Council shall be taken into consideration by the House of Assembly in extending the tenure.”

 

 

DATED AT KADUNA this 28th  day of March 2016.

 

Malam Nasir Ahmad el-Rufa’i
Governor, Kaduna S ate.

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note does not form part of this Law and has no legal effect)

The purpose of this Law is to amend the Local Government Administration Law, 2012 (as amended).

This printed impression has been carefully compared with the Bill which has passed the Kaduna State House of Assembly and found to be true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

HON. AMINU ABDULLAHI SHAGALI                                                                         UMMA ALIYU HIKIMA Esq. (Speaker)                                                                                                             (Clerk to the Legislature)

 

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