CAPITAL CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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CAPITAL CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title and commencement

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
ESTABLISHMENT AND CONDUCT OF CORPORATION

    3.    Establishment of the Corporation

    4.    Membership of Corporation

    5.    Resignation and vacation

    6.    Remuneration

    7.    Meetings

    8.    Standing orders

PART III
DESIGNATION OF CAPITAL CITY ETC.

    9.    Designation of Capital City and vesting of land

PART IV
PURPOSES AND POWERS

    10.    Purposes of Corporation

    11.    Power of Corporation

PART V
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

    12.    Conduct of financial affairs

    13.    Revenue of the Corporation

    14.    Annual estimates

    15.    Keeping of accounts

    16.    Bank accounts

    17.    Investments

    18.    Security for loans

    19.    Audit

    20.    Report of auditor

PART VI
STAFF AND AGENTS

    21.    Employment of officers and staff and their authority

    22.    Pensions and provident funds

    23.    Agents

PART VII
GENERAL

    24.    Regulations

    25.    Power of court to cancel licence or permit

    26.    Minister may give directions

    27.    Dissolution of the Corporation

10 of 1968
30 of 1969
28 of 1971
8 of 1980

    An Act to provide for the establishment, development and Administration of a Capital City at Lilongwe and for the establishment of a Capital City Development Corporation and to define the functions of that Corporation and for purposes connected therewith and incidental thereto

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Capital City Development Corporation Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—

    ‘‘Capital City’’ means the area of land designated by the President under section 9 as the Capital City of Lilongwe;

    ‘‘Chairman’’ means the Chairman of the Corporation designated under section 4 and any person acting as such;

    ‘‘Corporation’’ means the Capital City Development Corporation established under this Act;

    ‘‘development’’ includes redevelopment;

30 of 1969

    ‘‘financial year’’ means such year or other period as the Minister may from time to time, by notice published in the Gazette, determine to be the financial year of the Corporation.

PART II
ESTABLISHMENT AND CONDUCT OF CORPORATION

3.    Establishment of the Corporation

    There is hereby established the Capital City Development Corporation which shall be a body corporate by that name with perpetual succession and a common seal, with the power to alter and change the same from time to time and which shall, subject to this Act, be capable in law of suing and being sued, of acquiring, holding, letting and otherwise disposing of land, and of doing and performing such acts and things as bodies corporate may by law do and perform.

4.    Membership of Corporation

    (1) The Corporation shall consist of not less than six and not more than ten members, none of whom shall be a Minister or a member of the Parliament of Malawi.

28 of 1971

    (2) Members of the Corporation shall be appointed by the Minister who shall designate one member to be the Chairman and another member to be the Deputy Chairman.

    (3) No person shall be appointed a member if he—

    (a)    has been adjudged or otherwise declared bankrupt under any law in force in any part of the Commonwealth and has not been discharged or has made a composition with his creditors and has not paid his debts in full;

    (b)    is certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law for the time being in force in Malawi;

    (c)    is under sentence of death imposed on him in a court in Malawi or is under sentence of imprisonment (by whatever name called) imposed on him by such court or substituted by competent authority for some other sentence imposed on him by such court.

    (4) A member shall hold office for two years from the date of his appointment unless he sooner resigns or his appointment is terminated by the Minister under section 5.

    (5) The Chairman, Deputy Chairman and all other members shall be eligible for re-appointment at the conclusion of their respective terms of office.

    (6) No member shall participate in the consideration or discussion of or vote on any decision of the Corporation in respect of any matter in which he has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest.

5.    Resignation and vacation

    (1) A member may at any time by writing, under his hand addressed and delivered to the Minister, resign his membership.

    (2) A member shall vacate his membership if—

    (a)    any circumstance has arisen which if such person were not a member of the Corporation would cause him to be disqualified for appointment under section 4;

    (b)    such member has been absent from three consecutive meetings of the Corporation without permission of…