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3 of 2022
The Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Act 3 of 2022 intends:
- to amend the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000, so as
- to insert and amend certain definitions;
- to make further provision for the appointment of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers;
- to provide for procedures and competency criteria for such appointments, and for the consequences of appointments made otherwise than in accordance with such procedures and criteria;
- to determine timeframes within which performance agreements of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers must be concluded;
- to make further provision for the evaluation of the performance of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers;
- to require employment contracts and performance agreements of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers to be consistent with the Act and any regulations made by the Minister;
- to require all staff systems and procedures of a municipality to be consistent with uniform standards determined by the Minister by regulation;
- to bar municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers from holding political office in political parties;
- to regulate the employment of municipal employees who have been dismissed;
- to provide for the Minister to make regulations relating to the duties, remuneration, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers;
- to provide for the approval of staff establishments of municipalities by the respective municipal councils;
- to prohibit the employment of a person in a municipality if the post to which he or she is appointed is not provided for in the staff establishment of that municipality;
- to enable the Minister to prescribe frameworks to regulate human resource management systems for local government and mandates for organised local government;
- to extend the Minister’s powers to make regulations relating to municipal staff matters;
- to make a consequential amendment to the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998, by deleting the provision dealing with the appointment of municipal managers; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
Commencement
1 November 2022 (Gazette 47370 of 26 October 2022)