Local Government Municipal Structures Amendment Act

14 January 2000 No. 36. 14 Januarie 2000 It is hereby notified that the President has assented to the following Act which is hereby published for gene~al information:— Hierby word bekend gemaak dat die President sy goed- keuring geheg het aan d i e onderstaande Wet w:~t hi~rby ter algemene inligting gepubliseer word:- No. 58 of 1999: Local Government: Municipal Structures No. 58 van 1999: Wysigingswet op Pluaslike ~lunisipale Strukture. 1999. Regering: Amendment Act, 1999. 2 No. 20813 Act No. 58, 1999 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14 JANUARY 2000 LOCAL GOVERNMENT MUNICIPAL STRUCTURES AMENDMENT ACT. 1999 GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: 1 [ Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from existing enactments, Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in existing enactments. (Englis)l re.rt signed by tile Presidelzt.) (Assented to 12 J(Itlt[an 2000.) ACT To amend the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998, so as to vest the power to determine whether an area must have a single category A municipality or whether it must have municipalities of both category C and category B in the Municipal Demarcation Board; to vest the power to declare a part of the area of a category C municipality as a district management area in the Municipal Demarcation Board; and to remove the power of the Minister to determine guidelines for types of municipalities and to determine the term of municipal councils; and to provide for matters connected therewith. B E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:— Substitution of section 4 of Act 117 of 1998

1. The following section is hereby substituted for section 4 of the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act): 5 “Application of criteria 4. (1) The [Minister] Demarcation Board must— (a) apply the criteria set out in section 2 and determine whether an area in — terms of the criteria must have a single category A municipality or whether it must have municipalities of both category C and category 10 B- (b) determine the boundaries of the area in terms of the Demarcation Act. (2) The [Minister] Demarcation Board may determine thtit an area must have a category A municipality only after consultation with the Minister, the MEC for local government in the province concerned [the Demarca- 15 ~n Board] and SALGA [and organised local government in the province].”. — Repeal of section 5 of Act 117 of 1998

2. Section 5 of the principal Act is hereby repealed Amendment of section 6 of Act 117 of 1998 ~~

3. Section 6 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsections (2) and (3) of the following subsections, respectively: 4 No. 20813 GOVERNMENT GAZEnE, 14 JANUARY 2000 Act No. 58, 1999 LOCAL GOVERNME~. MUNICIPAL STRUCTURES AMENDMENT ACT, 1999 “(2) The [Minister, on the recommendation of the] Demarcation Board, [and] after consulting the Minister and the MEC for local government in the province concerned, may 6Y notice in the Government Gazette declare a part of an area that must have municipalities of both category C and category B as a district management area, if the establishment of a category B municipality in that part of 5 the area will not be conducive to fulfillment of the objectives set out in section 24 of the Demarcation Act. (3) (a) The [Minister, on the recommendation of the] Demmcation Board, [and] after consulting the Minister and the MEC for local government in the province concerned, may by notice in the Go}erntnent Gazette withdraw the 10 declaration of an area as a district management area. (b) When such declaration is withdrawn, the MEC for local government in the province concerned must, in accordance with any boundw determinations or redetermination of the Demarcation Bowd and with effect from the date of the next election of municipal councils— (i) establish a local municipality for that area in terms of section 12; or (ii) include that mea into another local municipality in terms of section [16] 17 “.—. Repeal of section 13 of Act 117 of 1998

4. Section 13 of the principal Act is hereby repealed. Amendment of section 24 of Act 117 of 1998 15 20

5. Section 24 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection: “(l) The term of municipal councils is [no more than] five years, [as determined by the Minister by notice in the Government Gazette] calculated from the day following the date or dates set for the previous election of all 25 municipal councils in terms of subsection (2).”. Short title

6. This is the Local Government: Municipal Structures Amendment Act, 1999.