NATIONAL FAMILY WELFARE COUNCIL OF MALAWI

CHAPTER 33:04
NATIONAL FAMILY WELFARE COUNCIL OF MALAWI

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title and commencement

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
THE NATIONAL FAMILY WELFARE COUNCIL OF MALAWI

    3.    Establishment of the Council

    4.    Composition of the Council

    5.    Vacation of office of members of the Council

    6.    Filling of vacancies on the Council

    7.    Co-opted persons

    8.    Chairman and Vice-Chairman

    9.    Remuneration of members of the Council

    10.    Meeting of the Council

    11.    Non-liability of members of the Council or of committees

PART III
FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE COUNCIL

    12.    Functions of the Council

    13.    Powers of the Council

    14.    Committees of the Council

PART IV
MANAGEMENT OF THE COUNCIL

    15.    Appointment of Executive Secretary and other staff

PART V
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

    16.    Funds, accounts and audit

PART VI
COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL

    17.    Policies, Programmes and Procedures Committee

    18.    Quality Control Committee

    19.    Education Committee

PART VII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

    20.    Regulations

20 of 1990
G.N. 126/1990

    An Act to make provision for the co-ordination, promotion, fostering and implementation of family welfare programmes in Malawi; the establishment of a National Family Welfare Council of Malawi; and further to provide for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the National Family Welfare Council of Malawi Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “Chairman” means the person designated as Chairman of the Council under section 8;

    “Council” means the National Family Welfare Council of Malawi established under section 3;

    “Family Welfare” means the well-being of all persons in Malawi in all aspects of their cultural, social, economic and other forms of human development, reproduction, growth, population and other human development related matters.

PART II
THE NATIONAL FAMILY WELFARE COUNCIL OF MALAWI

3.    Establishment of the Council

    There is hereby established a body to be known as the National Family Welfare Council of Malawi which shall be—

    (a)    a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal;

    (b)    in its corporate name, capable of suing and being sued;

    (c)    capable of holding, purchasing and otherwise acquiring and disposing of any property, moveable or immoveable, for the purposes, or in the course, of carrying out its functions; and

    (d)    capable of doing and performing all such acts and things as bodies corporate may by law do and perform.

4.    Composition of the Council

    (1) The Council shall consist of—

    (a)    The following members appointed by the Minister—

        (i)    three persons representing religious organizations in Malalwi;

        (ii)    a representative of the Private Hospital Association of Malawi;

        (iii)    a representative of the Council for Social Welfare;

        (iv)    a representative of the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation;

        (v)    a representative of the Chitukuko Cha Amayi m’Malawi;

        (vi)    not less than three and not more than five other members representing the non-governmental sector;

    (b)    the following ex-officio members—

        (i)    the Secretary for Health or his representative;

        (ii)    the Secretary for Community Services or his representative;

        (iii)    the Secretary for Education and Culture or his representative;

        (iv)    the Secretary to the Treasury or his representative;

        (v)    the Secretary for Media Services and Public Affairs or his representative; and

        (vi)    the Secretary for Economic Planning and Development or his representative.

    (2) A representative of an ex-officio member referred to in subsection (1) (b) shall be designated by, or on behalf of, the ex-officio by a notice in writing to the Council to attend the meetings thereof, and upon such designation such representative shall not attend to the business of the Council by representation.

    (3) A member of the Council appointed under subsection (1) (a), shall hold office for a period of two years unless his appointment is terminated sooner than the expiry of that period and shall be eligible for re-appointment.

    (4) The names of all members of the Council as first constituted and every change in the membership of the Council shall be published in the Gazette.

5.    Vacation of office of members

    The office of a member, other than an ex-officio member, shall become vacant—

    (a)    upon his death;

    (b)    if he has been absent from three consecutive meetings of the Council, of which he has had notice, without the permission of the Chairman;

    (c)    if he has been convicted of an offence without the option of a fine and sentenced to imprisonment for a period exceeding six months;

    (d)    if in the opinion of the Minister he becomes mentally or physically incapable of efficiently performing his duties as a member of the Council; and

    (e)    if the Minister so directs.

6.    Filling of vacancies on the Council

    (1) On vacation of office by a member of the…