Municipal Fiscal Powers and Functions Amendment Bill

The Standing Committee on Finance invites stakeholders and interested parties to submit written submissions on the Municipal Fiscal Powers and Functions Amendment Bill [B21 – 2022].

The Municipal Fiscal Powers and Functions Amendment Bill [B21 – 2022] aims to:

• Amend the Municipal Fiscal Powers and Functions Act, 2007 to-
• regulate the power of municipalities to levy development charges;
• set out the permissible uses of income from development charges;
• provide for the basis of calculation of development charges;
• provide for municipal development charges policies;
• provide for community participation and making of by-laws in order to give effect to policy on development charges;
• provide for engineering services agreements;
• provide for the installation of external engineering services by applicants instead of payment of development charges;
• provide for the consequences of non-provision of infrastructure by a municipality;
• provide for rebate and exemption on the payment of development charges;
• provide for dispute resolution, delegations and financial misconduct and transitional provisions relating to development charges; and
• empower the Minister to make regulations for the effective implementation of matters relating to development charges; and
• Amend the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

Submissions must be sent to the Committee Secretaries, Mr Allen Wicomb and Ms Teboho Sepanya at [email protected] / [email protected] by no later than 12:00 on Tuesday, 21 March 2023.

Those who want to make submissions at public hearings on Wednesday, 22 March 2023 should specifically request this. These hearings will be conducted through Zoom.

Issued by Hon. J Maswanganyi, MP, Chairperson: Standing Committee on Finance (National Assembly)

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