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(1) A person is not entitled under this Act to institute proceedings for the deposition of a chief unless that person is entitled to do so under the custom of the area concerned.

(2) A Traditional Council shall not declare a chief liable to be deposed unless in accordance with subsection (3), the Judicial Committee of the Traditional Council has considered the charges against the chief and found the chief liable to be deposed.

(3) Except where deposition is accepted without challenge, and subject to an appeal, a chief is not deposed, unless

(a) deposition charges have been instituted against the chief and

(b) the appropriate customary practice for deposition in the area concerned have been complied with.

(4) Subsection (3) does not preclude a Traditional Council from imposing appropriate customary sanction on a divisional or subordinate chief of a Traditional area, or a member of the Traditional Council of the area.