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Kenya Gazette Sup plement No. 65
19th July 1966
(Legislative Supplement No. 39)
LEGAL NoncE No. 204
THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES ACT 1965
(No. 32 of 1965)
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by sections 14 (l) and
15 of the Public Archives Act 1965, the Vice-President hereby makes
the following Regulations:THE PUBLIC ARCHiVES (ADVISORY COUNCIL)
REGULATIONS 1966
I. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Archives (Advisory
Council) Regulations 1966.
Citation.
2. There is hereby established a Council to be known as the
Public Archives Advisory Council (hereinafter referred to as "the
Council").
Establishment
of Council.
3. The Council shall consist of the following members(a) the
Chief Archivist; and
(b) eight o,ther members appointed by the Minister, of whom
one shall be a member of the staff of the History Department of the University College, Nairobi, appointed to
represent research interest, and the other seven shall be
appointed to represent the interests of owners of records.
4.- (1) Each appointed member of the Council shall hold office
for a term of three years, unless his appointment is earlier revoked
by' the Minister, and at the end of that term shall be eligible for
reappointment.
Membership
of Council.
Tenure of
office of
members_
(2) Where the Minister terminates an appointment, or an appointed
member dies, the member appointed by the Minister in his place shall
hold office for the unexpired residue of the period of office of the
member replaced.
5. (1) The chairman and .the vice-chairman shall each be elected
by the members of the Council from among their number, and shall
hold office at the pleasure of the Council.
Chairman and
vice-chairman.
(2) The chairman shall preside over all meetings of the Council,
and in the event ,of his being incapacitated by illness, absence or
other cause ,the vice-chairman shall preside.
6. (1) The decision of ,the majority of .the members present and
voting at a meeting of the Council shall be deemed to be the decision
of the Council.
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(2) The quorum ,of .the Council shall be ,the chairman (or vicechairman as the case may be) and four other members.
Decisions of
Council, and
quorum.
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Temporary
incapacity
of member.
Meetings.
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7. If any member ·of the Council is .temporarily incapacitated by
illness, absence abroad or other cause from performing the duties of
his otiice, the Minister may appoint another person to act in his
place, and such person shall be deemed .to be a member of the
Council until the member is again able to perform those duties or
ceases to hold office as a member.
8. (1) The Council shall hold ordinary meetings not less than
three times in each year, and may hold additional ordinary meetings
whenever the chairman ,thinks fit, and such meetings shall be convcned by the chairman, or where the chairman is not available the
vice-chairman.
(2) The chairman, or where the chairman is not available, the
vice-chairman, may at any time convene a special meeting of the
Council. and shall in any case do so within a month of his receiving
a written request signed by at least ,two other members.
(3) Where a meeting is convened, notice specifying the place.
day and hour of the meeting shall be given to each member by being
delivered at, or sent by post to, his usual place of business or
residence or postal address, aJt least fourteen days before the date of
the meeting.
Procedure.
Secretary.
9. Subject as herein provided the Council shall have power to
regulate its own procedure.
10. The Chief Archivist shall be the secretary of the Council.
Made this 11th day of July 1966.
JOSEPH MURUMBI,
Vice-President.
LEGAf ;\OI1U':
No. lOS
THE ELECTRIC POWER ACT
(Cap. 314)
Pl:UUCATION 01:' ACCOUNTS
(Tana River Development Company Limited)
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 44 of the
Electric Power Act, the Minister for Power and Communications
hereby substitutes for the 30th June, the 30th September as the date
in every year upon which annual statements of accounts of the
undertaking shall be filled up, and substitutes for the 31 st March
then next preceding, the 31 st December then next preceding as the
daJtc to which such accounts shall be made up.
Dated 1:his 27th day of June 1966.
E. N. MWENDWA,
Minister for Power and Communications.