COMMUNAL PROPERTY ASSOCIATIONS: 1996 REGULATIONS TO BE REPLACED

COMMUNAL PROPERTY ASSOCIATIONS: 1996 REGULATIONS TO BE REPLACED

• 08 August 2025
• Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development has gazetted draft regulations under the 1996 Communal Property Associations Act, calling for input by 7 September 2025. Once finalised, they will repeal those in place since November 1996.

In terms of the Act, a communal property association is one formed in the context of land restitution.

Among other things, the proposed new regulations cover:

• registering a ‘communal property body’ and related documentation
• the registrar’s obligations regarding the register and its maintenance
• access to information and copies of documents
• the requirements of an association’s mandatory constitution
• the requirements of the mandatory land plan
• the role of an association’s committee
• the role of association members
• membership termination
• exemptions from land-related legislation
• deregistration and name change, and
• appeals.

Please click the links below for more information:

• draft replacement regulations
• 1996 regulations (to be repealed and replaced)

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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