Housing Second Amendment Act 60 of 1999

Housing Second Amendment Act, 1999 (No. 60 of 1999)

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:
__ Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments.

(English text signed by the President.)
(Assented to 9 December 1999.)

Act

• to amend the Housing Act, 1997, so as:
• to authorise a Member of the Executive Council of a provincial government to approve the sale or other alienation of welfare facilities under certain circumstances; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—

Amendment of section 14 of Act 107 of 1997

1. Section 14 of the Housing Act, 1997, is hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (g) of subsection (4) of the following paragraph:

“(g) (i) If my juristic person provided any welfare facility using money lent to such juristic person by the former Board or a municipality out of any loan, advance or other finance which was approved under any law referred to in paragraph (b), the provincial housing development board to which the right to recover such loan has passed or the municipality, as the case may be, may, with the approval of the MEC in consultation with the member of the Executive Council responsible for welfare in the province in question, absolve such juristic person from its obligation to repay the loan or any part thereof.

(ii) Where the sale or other alienation of any welfare facility provided or acquired out of any loan, advance or other finance approved under any law referred to in paragraph (b) is subject to the approval of the Minister, the MEC in consultation with the member of the Executive Council responsible for welfare in the province in question may grant such approval on such conditions as he or she may determine.”.

Short title

3. This Act is called the Housing Second Amendment Act, 1999,

Commencement

15 December 1999