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(1) The mandate of an elected member of a District Assembly may be revoked by the electorate.

(2) For the purpose of revoking the mandate of an elected member, twenty-five per cent or more of the registered voters in the electoral area may petition the Electoral Commission for a recall of that member from the District Assembly.

(3) The Electoral Commission shall conduct a referendum to decide whether or not the member must be recalled.

(4) The issue at the referendum shall be decided if at least

(a) forty per cent of the registered voters in the electoral area vote on the issue; and

(b) sixty per cent of the votes cast are in favour of the recall of the member.

(5) Where an elected member of a District Assembly

(a) is recalled

(b) is removed

(c) resigns

(d) dies; or

(e) ceases to be a member by reason of section 9 (1) (e) a by-election shall be held to elect another person to replace the elected member.

(6) Subsection (5) does not apply where the recall, removal, resignation or death occurs within six months before the end of the tenure of the elected member.

(7) Whenever a vacancy occurs in a District Assembly in respect of an elected member, the Secretary to the Assembly shall notify the Electoral Commission in writing, within seven days after becoming aware that the vacancy has occured and a by-election shall be held within thirty days after the vacancy occured except that, where the vacancy occured by the death of the elected member, the by-election shall be held within sixty days after the occurance of the vacancy.

 (8) Where the occurence of the vacancy is occasioned by the death of an appointed member, the Secretary to the Assembly shall notify the President through the Minister, of the occurrence of the vacancy and the President shall within thirty days, appoint another person to the District Assembly.

(9) The appointment of an appointed member of a District Assembly may be revoked by the President,

(a) upon the recommendation of three-fourths of the members  of the District Assembly on grounds that the member has

(i) systematically neglected the duties of an appointed member of a District Assembly; or

(ii) committed acts incompatible with the office as a member of the District Assembly for which sufficient evidence is available; or

(b) upon a complaint made of wrong doing or improper conduct established to be true after investigation by an ad-hoc committee of the District Assembly.

(10) Where the appointment of an appointed member of a District Assembly is revoked, another person may be appointed to replace the appointed member.

(11) A person appointed under subsection (10) shall serve the term of the member whose appointment has been revoked and may be re-appointed.