Select Committee on Appropriations: Consideration of Final Mandates on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill
Meeting Summary
The Committee met to consider the final Mandates on Division of Revenue Amendment Bill. Seven provinces had delivered their mandates on time. Of the seven mandates that were presented the
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Final Mandates: Division of Revenue Amendment Bill
The Chairperson noted that he had received the mandates from
Mr B Mnguni (ANC;
Mr S Montsitsi (ANC;
Mr Montsitsi informed Members that he had just received the
The Chairperson confirmed that
Mr Montsitsi explained that the KZN had failed to meet and therefore did not submit their mandate.
The Chairperson said that the late submissions of
The Western Cape Provincial Legislature voted in favour of the Bill; however it requested amendments to be made and sought clarity on a few issues.
Ms Wendy Fanoe, Intergovernmental Policy, National Treasury, said that certainty needed to be given to municipalities concerning the provision that at the beginning of a financial year a province that made transfers to municipalities from its own funds must gazette the indicative allocation to the municipalities concerned.
The current Division of Revenue Act was silent on what ought to be done when a province wanted to amend such allocations.
Ms Fanoe explained that housing was not a local government function, it was a provincial function and that provincial governments used municipalities as agents to act on their behalf. When the
Mr B Mashile (ANC; Mpumalanga) said that he did not think that allocating funds to one municipality that seemed to be performing well and not making those same funds available to other municipalities would work for all parties concerned or be in line with the ideology of government.
Mr C De Beer (ANC;
Mr S Mazosiwe (ANC;
The Chairperson said that the
The Chairperson noted that the Committee had received seven supporting mandates and anticipated that the two outstanding mandates would be no different, as their negotiating mandates did not raise any concerns. More than 50 % of the provinces accepted the mandate with no amendments; therefore the Committee would record it as such. The standard report relating to the meeting at hand would be circulated on the same day before noon and the Division of Revenue Amendment Bill would be passed in Parliament on the 16 November 2010.
The Chairperson proposed that the Committee should just pass a statement next week, but then debate the Bill on 24 November 2010.
Members accepted the Chairperson’s proposal.
The meeting was adjourned
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