LEGISLATION
| Published date | 01 January 1954 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1954.tb00044.x |
| Date | 01 January 1954 |
44
JOURNAL
OF
AFRICAN
ADMINISTRATION
which a local
government
body
should
carry
out
if it is to develop a real sense
of
responsibility
and
also to
show
the
local taxpayers as a whole
that
their
local tax
is
being
used
for
their
benefit".
The
government
gave a general blessing to
Mr.
Davidson's
recommendations
and
then
submitted
them
to each council for detailed discussion in
order
that
there
may
be
the
greatest possible
contribution
of local opinion before
the
next
step
is taken.
The
proposals as a whole
amount
to
the
establishment of a two-tier
structure
of local government,
with
the
12 district councils at
the
top
and
approxi-
mately 150 native administrations below.
Of
some
of
the
latter it is recorded
in
the
annual
report
that
they
are too large
and
unwieldy
and
since this appears
to be also a fault in
the
district councils, as
opposed
to
the
standing
committees,
it is possible to foresee
that
the
composition of
both
kinds of
body
must
shortly
be reviewed. Doubtless at
the
same
time
it will be necessary to examine
whether
any
change
should
be
made
in
the
position of district councils as electoral colleges
for central legislature.
TANGANYIKA:
Local Government Memoranda
No.2,
Government
Printer,
Dar-es-
Salaam; 1953; 5s.; pp. 120.
This
memorandum
describes
the
local
court
system in Tanganyika. As it is
compiled particularly in
order
to assist
the
administrative officer in his supervision
of
the
local courts, it contains an appreciation of
the
nature
of
the
indigenous
judicial
institutions on which
the
courts are based
and
anote on
their
history
since
their
formal establishment.
In
the
earlier Native
Courts
Memorandum
emphasis was laid on
the
interpretation
of
the
Ordinance.
This
memorandum
contains avaluable section on the lines along which the
future
growth
of the courts
should
be guided.
LEGISLATION
I.
GENERAL.
NORTHERN
RHODESIA
Native
Tax
(Ame1ldment) Ordinance No. 34
of
1953.
Restricts to a fine only (max.
£5)
the
punishment
which
may
be inflicted for a
first offence
of
non-payment
of
native tax.
UGANDA
(Kingdom
of Buganda)
Great Lukiko (Election
of
Representatives)
Law
1953.
Clause 11 of
the
Uganda
Agreement 1900 provides
that
the
Lukiko shall consist
of
eighty-nine
persons including
the
twenty
official saza (county) chiefs
and
three
notables selected by
the
Kabaka from each of
the
twenty
sasas.
The
remaining
nine
include
the
three
ministers
and
six persons
of
importance
appointed
at large
by
the
Kabaka.
Of
the
sixty
members
from
the
sasas
the
Kabaka allowed aform of election
for
thirty-six
in 1945
and
for forty in 19501•
The
present
law repeals the 1945
and
1950 laws
and
provides for the election of all sixty.
The
Kabaka
declares
that
he will
appoint
three
notables, henceforth called representatives, from each
saza who have
been
elected in
the
following
manner.
Each
muluka (parish, village) has the right to elect one representative to an
electoral college.
There
is to be
adult
male suffrage
subject
to a residence
and
tax:-
paying qualification. Voting is to be by
show
of hands. Persons elected to the
electoral college
must
themselves be registered voters.
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'See
" A Survey of Local
Government
since
1947",
p. 26 of
Supplement
to Journa
of African Administration, IV, 2. April, 1952.
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