Community Development Amendment Act 74 of 1970

The Community Development Amendment Act 74 of 1970 intends:

• to amend the Community Development Act, 1966, so as:
  • to adjust the numbers of certain sections of laws referred to therein, to the change of the numbers of those sections in the laws concerned;
  • to regulate further the duties of the Community Development Board towards the Senate and the Honse of Assembly in connection with certain expenditure;
  • to enable the Secretary for Community Development, instead of the said 'board, to confer certain powers on certain officers;
  • to equate the unpaid portion of the purchase price of property of the said board with a loan;
  • to empower the said board to assign names to streets in certain townships or to change the names of such streets;
  • to empower the said board to cancel a contract of purchase and sale in certain circumstances and to make provision in such a case, for the expropriation of the property in question;
  • to apply the duty of the said board to pay an appreciation or a depreciation contribution in respect of every acquisition of property by it;
  • to regulate the determination of the amonnt of the compensation payable by the said board in respect of immovable property when certain provisions of the said Act are not being complied with by the owner of that property; and
  • to regulate further the payment of such compensation when the owner of the property concerned cannot be found; and
• to provide for matters incidental thereto.

Commencement

9 October 1970