Legislation

DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1960.tb00185.x
Published date01 July 1960
Date01 July 1960
Legislation
I.
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
TANGANYIKA
Local Government
(South East Lake County Council)
(Dissolution) Ordinance No. 33 of 1959.
THE
South-East
Lake
County
Council was established in 1955,
under
the
terms
of
the Local
Government
Ordinance.
Cap.
333,
Ordinance
No. 35 of
1953,1
AT
that
time, the idea was
that
local
government
should be multi-racial.
The
lowest level
at
which asignificant
number
of
members
could be
drawn
from all
races was very high indeed
and
the
jurisdiction of
the
council extended over no
less
than
eight administrative districts. Five
of
these were
part
of the
Sukuma
Federation,
two
more
were
added
because of a
common
interest in cotton
and
the
eighth
was
added
because otherwise it would
have
been
left
out
on a limb.
In
1958
Geita
hived
off
as a separate District Council
and
an
African
became
chairman
of
the
County
Council, replacing
the
deputy
Provincial Commis-
sioner who became vice-chairman.
The
Council
then
had
amembership of fifty
which included twenty-four Africans, eighteen
Europeans
and
eight
Asians.
Of
the
members, sixteen were
government
officials
and
included
the
seven
District Commissioners, seven were chiefs, fourteen were representatives of
native
authority
councils
and
four
of
urban
councils within
the
area,
and
nine
were
nominated
by the Provincial Commissioner.
The
County
Council was
mainly
concerned
with
natural
resources
and
dele-
gated
its work largely to district committees working
under
the
chairmanship
of
the
District Commissioner.
Each
district
committee
had
four representatives
from
the
native
authority
council in the district
and
carried
out
its work
with
funds received from
the
County
Council.
It
had,
however, soon become
apparent
that
the
County
Council was too
remote from
the
people to be a suitable local
government
unit,
covering as it
did
alarge
and
diverse
area.
It
lacked the
power
to raise its
own
funds
and
was
entirely
dependent
on grants from the centre.
It
was uneconomic in the sense
that
it was
not
producing
notably
greater
results
than
were
already
being
produced
by
the
authorities between which it
had
been
interpolated,
that
is,
the
central
government
on
the
one
hand
and
the
lower councils on
the
other.
For
these reasons,
the
Government
in 1958 formally conveyed to the
chairman
its wish to dissolve the council, probably
at
the
end
of
1959.
The
council raised
no objection
and
this
ordinance
carries
the
decision
into
effect.
This
was the only council of its sort established by law. A similar council in
the
Southern
Highlands
Province
operated
unofficially for a
year
or two,
but
the
intention
to
grant
it legal status was
abandoned
when
the
defects of this sort
of
structure
became
clear in
the
South-East
Lake
County
Council.
1J.A.A., Vol.
VI;
No.2;
p. 123.
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