REGIONAL AND DISTRICT BOUNDARIES AND PLACE NAMES

CHAPTER 18:04
REGIONAL AND DISTRICT BOUNDARIES AND PLACE NAMES

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

    1.    Short title

    2.    Division of Malawi into Regions and Districts

    3.    Power to amend First Schedule

    4.    Interpretation of laws

    5.    Alteration of place names, etc.

        First Schedule

        Second Schedule

42 of 1967
G.N. 96/1968
201/1968
3/1970
199/1970
268/1970
88/1971
109/1971
62/1972
161/1973
7/1979
8/1979
9/2024

    An Act to provide for the division of Malawi into Regions and Districts and for alterations to such divisions to provide for the conferring and altering of place names and for matters connected therewith

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Regional and District Boundaries and Place Names Act.

2.    Division of Malawi into Regions and Districts

    (1) Malawi shall be divided into the Regions referred to in the First Schedule, each of which shall be comprised respectively of the Districts as set out in the First Schedule.

    (2) Malawi shall be divided into the Districts specified in the First Schedule the boundaries of which shall be the boundaries appropriate to such Districts as set out in the First Schedule.

First Schedule

First Schedule

3.    Power to amend

First Schedule

    The President may, from time to time, as he thinks convenient or expedient for the purposes of administration, amend any or all of the divisions of Malawi provided for under section 2, varying the number of divisions, altering the boundaries and the names thereof or providing new names, and for this purpose may, by Order published in the Gazette, amend the First Schedule.

First Schedule

4.    Interpretation of laws

First Schedule

    (1) References in any written law to a Region or District by a name specified in the First Schedule shall, unless a contrary intention appears, be read and construed as references to the Region or District, as the case may be, the boundaries of which are described in such First Schedule.

First Schedule

    (2) Where the President by Order under section 3 alters the number of Regions or Districts, or alters the name or boundaries of a Region or District, every written law shall be read and construed with such modifications and with such alterations of names as may be necessary to give effect to the President’s Order.

5.    Alteration of place names, etc.

    (1) The President may, from time to time, as he considers it convenient or expedient so to do, by Order published in the Gazette, confer a name on any Municipality, Township, village, lake, river, mountain, hill, valley, place, area or geographical feature or location which has no name, or may in like manner alter any name already conferred on the same, or by which the same may be known, and any such name conferred or substituted shall have effect for all purposes and all written laws.

    (2) Where the President, by Order under this section, alters or substitutes any name, every written law shall be read and construed with such modifications and with such alterations of names as may be necessary to give effect to the President’s Order.

    (3) The place names specified in the second column of the Second Schedule shall be deemed to have been substituted for the place names specified in the first column of the Second Schedule with effect from the dates respectively specified in the third column of the Second Schedule as though substituted by virtue of an Order or Orders made under subsection (1) for the purposes of subsection (2) and may be altered or amended in like manner as an Order made under subsection (1).

Second Schedule

Second Schedule

Second Schedule

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FIRST SCHEDULE

    1. The Northern Region comprising—

G.N. 201/1968

161/1973

    (a)    Karonga District

    Commencing on the Malawi-Tanzania international boundary at the confluence of the Manolo River and the Songwe River; thence by the Manolo River upstream to its confluence with the Kasongwe Stream; thence by the Kasongwe Stream upstream to its source in the Nambatata Hills; thence in a straight line in a westerly direction to the source of the Nalupanga Stream; thence by the Nalupanga Stream downstream to its confluence with the Ndamutakwa River; thence in a straight line in a southerly direction through the continuation of the Nambatata Hills to the source of the Kanuwiri Stream; thence by the Kanuwiri Stream downstream to its confluence with the Makeye River; thence by the Makeye River downstream to its confluence with the Kavira Stream; thence by the Kavira Stream upstream to its source in the Mwakalomba Hills; thence in a straight line in a southeasterly direction for a distance of approximately 2 ½ miles to Ndelema Hill; thence in a straight line in a south-westerly direction for a distance of approximately 1 ¼ miles to the source of the Pinda Stream; thence by the Pinda Stream downstream to its confluence…