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Botswana Housing Corporation - Preliminary (Ss 1-2)


Published: 1971-02-05

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

 

PART I
Preliminary

 

SECTION

 

1.        Short title

2.        Interpretation

 

PART II
 Establishment, Constitution and Membership of Corporation and Board

 

3.        Establishment of Corporation

4.        Establishment of Board

5.        Tenure of office of members

6.        Disqualification of members

7.        Payment of members

 

PART III
 Meetings and Proceedings of the Board

 

8.        Presiding officer

9.        Meetings of the Board

10.        Standing orders

11.        Signing of documents

12.        Committees

 

PART IV
 Officers, Employees and Agents of the Corporation

 

13.        Appointment of officers and employees

 

PART V
 Functions, Powers and Duties of the Corporation

 

14.        Functions and powers

15.        Powers to contract

16.        Co-operation with authorities

17.        Research and records

18.        Power of Minister to give directions

 

PART VI
 Finances

 

19.        Funds of the Corporation

20.        Financial policy of the Corporation

21.        Borrowing powers of Corporation

22.        Investment

23.        Vesting of property, etc.

24.        Accounts and audit

25.        Bad debts

26.        Liability to pay tax, etc.

 

PART VII
 Entry upon, and Compulsory Acquisition of, Land

 

27.        Entry upon land

28.        Compulsory acquisition of land

 

PART VIII
 General

 

29.        Annual report

30.        Power to call for information

31.        Regulations

32.        Service of notice

33.        Protection from personal liability

34.        Oath of secrecy

 

Act 75, 1970,
S.I. 9, 1971,
Act 24, 1972,
Act 5, 1973,
Act 7, 1977,
Act 5, 1994.

An Act to provide for the establishment of a Corporation to be known as the Botswana Housing Corporation for the provision of housing and to provide for matters incidental thereto and connected therewith.

[Date of Commencement: 5th February, 1971]

 

 

1.       Short title

 

            This Act may be cited as the Botswana Housing Corporation Act.

 

2.       Interpretation

 

            In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

            "Board" means the Botswana Housing Corporation Board established by section 4;

            "Chairman" means the person appointed by the Minister under section 4 to be the Chairman of the Board, or the person for the time being acting as the Chairman in accordance with the provisions of this Act;

            "Corporation" means the Botswana Housing Corporation established under section 3;

            "financial year" means the period of 12 months ending on the 31st March in each year;

            "Government housing undertakings" means works established and arrangements concluded by the Government for the purpose of providing housing in Botswana;

            "house" means a building designed or adapted for human habitation and includes the site thereof and the usual appurtenances, outbuildings, fences and permanent provision for lighting, water supply, drainage and sewerage;

            "housing estate" means a tract of land on which houses have been, or are being, or are about to be constructed in the carrying out of a single project;

            "housing scheme" means a proposal for the construction of several houses, whether or not the proposal includes the acquisition of land for such houses or the laying out, replanning, sub-division and development of the land for building sites, which proposal may include such proposals for the provision of roads, drains, sewers, other public services, open spaces and other improvements as may conveniently subserve such proposal;

            "member" means a member of the Board appointed by the Minister in accordance with section 4.