President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, on Wednesday, ratified the ninth amendment to the Decentralization Act, passed by the Parliament on December 6, 2020.
The amendment stipulates the rules under which councils may create and implement policies and regulations while managing constituents, and outlines the information that councils should include in its land-use plans.
The Ministry of Finance is mandated to formulate councils' guidelines to utilise its finances under the amendment.
The newly ratified law further contains several changes to different Sections of the Decentralisation Act, rendering the replaced Sections void.
Further, the Attorney General is required to identify any laws that may contradict the Decentralisation Act's stipulations, as per the amendment.
The Attorney General must also submit amendments to the specified list of laws to the Parliament within six months of the Act coming into force.
Following ratification, the ninth amendment to the Decentralisation Act has now been published in the Government Gazette.
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