LOCAL GOVERNMENT: DRAFT GENERAL LAWS AMENDMENT BILL OUT FOR COMMENT

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: DRAFT GENERAL LAWS AMENDMENT BILL OUT FOR COMMENT

• 15 May 2024
• Local & Provincial Government
• SA Legal Academy

Please note: On 26 June 2024, a notice was gazetted extending the deadline for comment to 31 July 2024. On 2 August, the deadline was further extended to 31 August 2024.

The Department of Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs has gazetted a draft Local Government: General Laws Amendment Bill – calling for input by 28 June 2024.

According to a memorandum on the draft Bill’s objects, it seeks to:

• ‘entrench good practices’, and
• ‘address the challenges that have been experienced’.

With that in mind, the proposed new piece of legislation provides, among other things, for:

• a raft of measures and procedures affecting:
  • municipal managers and acting municipal managers
  • managers reporting directly to municipal managers
  • dismissed staff members
  • bargaining council negotiations
  • financial misconduct
  • unauthorised, irregular or fruitless and wasteful expenditure
  • councils and councillors
  • ward and public accounts committees
• ‘the electronic communication of information in respect of community participation’
• due consideration of the ‘additional needs of women and youth’ in consultation processes
• the inclusion of ‘growth and climate change scenarios’ as a ‘core component’ of integrated development planning, and
• input from national and provincial organs of state to municipal integrated development planning processes.

Please click the link below for more information:

• draft Bill

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