Section 3: Amendment of section

THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2010. An Act to amend the National Women's Council Act to provide for membership of the village women's council, to empower the Electoral Commission to designate a period for registering voters and to maintain a voters register for the village women's council. DATE OF ASSENT: 5th June, 2010. Date of Commencement: 25th June, 2010. BE IT ENACTED by Parliament as follows: The National Women's Council Act, in this Act referred to as the principal Act is amended in section 6- (a) by substituting for subsection (1) the following- "(1) A village women's council shall consist of women who reside in the village and are willing to be members of the village council." (b) by inserting immediately after subsection(l) the following- "(la) Without prejudice to subsection (1), woman who is not a citizen of Uganda shall not be a member of a village women's council. (lb) The decisions of a village women's council shall be binding on all the women in a village." The principal Act is amended by inserting immediately after section 6 the following- "6A. Electoral Commission to maintain voters register The Electoral Commission shall- (a) by statutory instrument designate a period for registering women who want to participate in the women council elections at all levels; (b) compile, maintain, revise and update the voters register for women's councils at the village level; and (c) by statutory instrument designate a period for updating the voter's register for women's council elections.