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Rural District Development (RDDC)

  • Composition/Membership

    For each council area there shall be a committee, to be known as the Rural District Development Committee (RDDC), consisting of-

      • (a) the District Administrator; and
      • (b) the Chairman of every other committee established by the council; and
      • (c) the Chief Executive Officer of the council and such other officers of the council as the council may determine; and
      • (d) the senior officer in the district of –
        • (i) the Zimbabwe Republic Police; and

      • (ii) the Zimbabwe National Army; and

      • (iii) the President’s Department; and

      • (e) the District Head of each Ministry and department of a Ministry within the district that the Minister may designate by notice in writing to the District Administrator; and

      ( f ) such further persons representing other organizations and interests as the Minister, on the recommendation of the District Administrator, may permit.
    • (2) If there is no officer who is the senior officer or district head of any force, department or Ministry referred to in paragraph (d) or (e) of subsection (1), or if there is doubt as to which officer is the senior officer or district head, as the case may be, the Commander of the force or the head of the department or the Secretary of the Ministry, as the case may be, shall, at the request of the district administrator concerned, designate an officer in his force, department or Ministry to be the senior officer or district head of the force, department or Ministry in the district concerned.
    • (3) The persons appointed as members of a Rural District Development Committee in terms of paragraph ( f ) of subsection (1) shall hold office at the pleasure of the Minister.
    • (4) The District Administrator shall preside at all meetings of a Rural District Development Committee at which he is present and, in his absence, the members present shall elect a District Head of a Ministry or Department referred to in paragraph (e) of subsection (1) to preside at the meeting.

DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS

  • 1. To consider Ward Development Plans submitted to it in terms of section fifty-nine;
  • 2. To make recommendations to the council as to matters to be included in the annual development and other long-term plans for the district within which the council area is situated;
  • 3. To prepare the Annual District Development Plan for approval by the council and assist in the preparation of other Long-term Plans for the Council area;
  • 4. When instructed to do so by the council, to investigate the implementation of the Annual Development and other Long-term Plans for the Council area;
  • 5. To exercise such other functions in relation to the Annual Development and other Long-term Plans for the district as may be assigned to it from time to time by the council.
  • 6. A District Development Plan referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (5) shall be prepared and presented to the council before the 31st May in every year.
  • 7. Subject to subsection (9), the District Administrator shall fix the times and places of all meetings of a Rural District Development Committee, and subsection (11) shall apply mutatis mutandis, to the convening of such meetings.
  • 8. A majority of the members referred to in subsection (1) shall form a quorum at any meeting of a Rural District Development Committee
  • 9. The Chairman of the council may at any time direct that a joint meeting be held between the council and its rural district development committee for the purpose of considering and approving the District Development Plan referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (5).
  • 10. A joint meeting referred to in subsection (9) shall be held at such place and time as the council Chairman may direct, and he shall be the Chairman of any such joint meeting.
  • 11. At least twenty-one days before a joint meeting referred to in subsection (9), the chief executive officer of the council shall send a notice stating the date, time and place of the joint meeting and the business to be transacted thereat to each member of the council and the rural district development committee, and shall display the notice at the places at which and in the manner in which notices of the council are normally displayed or in such other place and manner as may be prescribed in regulations
  • 12. At any joint meeting referred to in subsection (9) every councillor and member of the Rural District Development Committee who is present shall be entitled to one vote on every question before the meeting:

Provided that only councillors may vote on the final approval of an Annual District Development Plan referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (5).