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19 of 2008
The Local Government Laws Amendment Act 19 of 2008 aims to amend the:
- Local Government: Municipal Demarcation Act, 1998, so as:
- to insert a definition; and
- to provide for determinations of municipal boundaries to take effect on the commencement of the following municipal financial year;
- Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998, so as:
- to insert a definition;
- to provide for consequential amendments pertaining to interventions in municipalities;
- to provide for amendments to provisions relating to ward committees; and
- to provide for authorisations and adjustments of powers and functions to take effect on the commencement of the following municipal financial year;
- Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000, so as:
- to substitute a definition;
- to provide that the term of employment of a municipal manager may not exceed a maximum of five years;
- to align certain delegations with the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003;
- to regulate the participation of municipal staff members in national, provincial and local elections;
- to amend the Minister's regulatory powers;
- to provide for a municipality to provide an owner with copies of accounts sent to the occupier of such property;
- to provide for a correction in the Afrikaans text of section 106;
- to refine the process to investigate maladministration and related matters;
- to provide for the exemption of municipalities from provisions of the said Act, and
- to amend the Code of Conduct for Councillors and Municipal Staff in order to align it with the Municipal Finance Management Act; and
- Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act, 2004, so as:
- to substitute certain definitions;
- to allow quantification in terms of cost of relief measures to be dealt with through the municipal budget;
- to allow for municipalities not to value public service infrastructure if there is no intention to levy rates;
- to correct certain citations; and
- to allow for the curbing of rates revenue;
- to rationalise local government laws that have become obsolete as a result of local government legislation that was enacted since 1994; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Amends
- Promotion of Local Government Affairs Act 91 of 1983
- Promotion of Local Government Affairs Amendment Act 45 of 1985
- Constitutional Laws Amendment Act 43 of 1988
- Promotion of Local Government Affairs Amendment Act 82 of 1988
- Local Authority Affairs Amendment Act 127 of 1991
- Local Government Affairs Amendment Act 56 of 1993
- Local Government Affairs Second Amendment Act 117 of 1993
Commencement
13 October 2008
Repealed By
