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20.05.2004
Africa gets revised laws
A revised statute for the Confederation of African Football (Caf) was approved by the body`s extraordinary general assembly on Wednesday.
The statute, which was approved at the Hotel le Meridien Etoile in the French capital of Paris, has given Caf`s executive board the right to co-opt two members.
But according to Article 22 of the new law, these co-opted members, who would have a term of four years, would not have the right to vote.
A maximum age limit of 70 has also been fixed for anyone seeking election to any Caf office.
Elections to the Caf presidency and the executive board will now be organised in the year following every Cup of Nations tournament, in a bid to prevent politics from casting a shadow over the organisation of the continent`s most prestigious football event.
This means that the tenure of the incumbent members of the Caf executive, elected at January`s congress in Tunisia, will expire in 2009, the year before South Africa organises the World Cup finals.
The general assembly also passed a motion to ask Sepp Blatter, head of world football`s governing body Fifa, to reverse the decision deducting six points from Cameroon`s 2006 World Cup group qualifying campaign.
Fifa handed the sanction to Cameroon for using illegal kit at the Cup of Nations finals in Tunisia and failing to defend their case before their disciplinary committee.
Caf`s general assembly took the decision to make a direct appeal to Blatter despite his statement that he was in no position to reverse the decision.
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