Cap. 363 Art. 24Oaths of Office.

(1) Councillors elected in accordance with article 8, and Mayors and/or Deputy Mayors elected in accordance with article

25 shall take and subscribe the oath of office in the form stipulated in the Fifth Schedule before any Commissioner for Justice who is hereby being empowered to administer such oaths.

(2) Any Mayor, Deputy Mayor or councillor who undertakes a function incompatible with his oath of office shall be dismissed by the President, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister, unless within thirty days from the receipt of a written notice by the Minister, such member shall have renounced to the incompatible function.

(3) A breach of the Code of Ethics for Local Councillors may result in a referral of his case to the Governance Board which is to be established by the Minister to deal with cases of breaches of ethics. The Governance Board shall be constituted and conducted in accordance with regulations made by the Minister. The same Governance Board shall have the authority to deal with the public complaints vis-à-vis the Council.

(4) The Mayor, the Executive Secretary or any member of the Council shall report to the Department for Local Government any breach of the Code of Ethics committed by any councillor. Following the verification by the Board mentioned in sub-article

(3) of such reports and following a persistent breach of the Code of Ethics, a formal notice shall be issued by the Minister, which formal notice shall be published within such time as may be provided by regulation under this Act.

(5) Any member of the public may also make a claim to the Administrative Tribunal set up in accordance with the Administrative Justice Act whenever he feels aggrieved by an administrative act of a Local Council, that shall include the issue of any orders, licence, permit, warrant, authorization, concession, decisions or refusal of any request made by applicant.