ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I
Preliminary

     SECTION

                 1.        Short title

                 2.        Interpretation

PART II
 Establishment, Constitution and Membership of Corporation

                 3.        Establishment of Corporation

                 4.        Constitution

                 5.        Resignation and removal from office

                 6.        Tenure of office

                 7.        Temporary and alternate members

                 8.        Payment of members

PART III
 Meetings and Proceedings of the Corporation

                 9.        Presiding officer

                10.        Meetings

                11.        Signification of documents

PART IV
 Officers, Employees and Agents of the Corporation

                12.        Appointment of officers and employees

                13.        Delegation to committee

PART V
 Functions, Powers and Duties of the Corporation

                14.        Functions of the Corporation

                15.        Powers of the Corporation

                16.        Co-operation with authorities

                17.        Research and records

                18.        Power of the Minister to give directions

PART VI
 Finances

                19.        Principles of financial operations

                20.        Assessment of charges

                21.        Borrowing powers

                22.        Vesting of property in the Corporation

                23.        Power to invest

                24.        Liability to pay tax, etc.

                25.        Accounts and audit

PART VII
 General

                26.        Annual report

                27.        Compulsory acquisition of land

                28.        Re-settlement measures

                29.        Compensation for loss or damage

                30.        Power to call for information

                31.        Protection from personal liability

Act 24, 1970,
Act 67, 1970,
Act 19, 1975,
Act 33, 1978.

An Act to provide for the establishment of a Corporation to be known as the Water Utilities Corporation for the supply and distribution of water within the Shashe Development Area and elsewhere and to provide for matters incidental thereto and connected therewith.

[Date of Commencement: 30th June, 1970]

PART III
Meetings and Proceedings of the Corporation (ss 9-11)

9.       Presiding officer

            The chairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, or in the absence of both, a member elected by the Corporation, shall preside at all meetings of the Corporation, and the vice-chairman or person presiding at any meeting shall, with respect to such meeting or any business transacted thereat, have all the powers of, and be deemed to be, the chairman of the Corporation under this Act.

10.     Meetings

            (1) The Corporation shall hold ordinary meetings as and when necessary, so however, that ordinary meetings are held at intervals not exceeding three months.

            (2) Ordinary meetings of the Corporation shall be convened by the chairman at such times and at such places as he may in his discretion deem fit.

            (3) The chairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, shall at any time convene a special meeting of the Corporation upon receipt of a requisition signed by two members calling upon him to do so, and such special meeting shall be held not later than one month after receipt of such requisition.

            (4) The chairman shall have a casting as well as a deliberative vote; subject thereto, the decision of the majority of the members present and voting at any meeting of the Corporation shall be deemed to be the decision of the Corporation.

            (5) Any member of the Corporation who has an interest, or whose spouse has an interest, in any company or undertaking with which the Corporation proposes to make a contract, or has an interest in any contract which the Corporation proposes to make, shall disclose the nature of his interest and shall not vote or take any part in the proceedings of the Corporation relating to such contract.

            (6) At any meeting of the Corporation a quorum shall be constituted by not less than one half of the members, including the chairman, of the Corporation.

            (7) No act, decision or proceeding of the Corporation shall be questioned on account of any vacancy in the membership thereof, or on account of the appointment of any member of the Corporation being defective if the act was done or authorized or the decision was taken or the proceeding took place by or in accordance with a majority vote of the persons who at the time were entitled to act as members.

            (8) The Corporation may from time to time make standing orders providing for the regulation of-

     (a)     the meetings of the Corporation;

     (b)     the conduct of its business and other operations in carrying out its functions; and

     (c)     the duties of its officers, employees and agents.

11.     Signification of documents