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Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Act, 2011 (No. 7 of 2011).

Country/Territory
South Africa
Document type
Legislation
Date
2011
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Government Gazette, No. 34433 of 5 July 2011.
Long title
An Act to amend certain definitions; to make further provision for the appointment of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers; to provide for procedures and competency criteria for such appointments, and for the consequences of appointments made otherwise than in accordance with such procedures and criteria; to determine timeframes within which performance agreements of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers must be concluded; to make further provision for the evaluation of the performance of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers; to require employment contracts and performance agreements of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers to be consistent with the Act and any regulations made by the Minister; to require all staff systems and procedures of a municipality to be consistent with uniform standards determined by the Minister by regulation; to bar municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers from holding political office in political parties; to regulate the employment of municipal employees who have been dismissed; to provide for the Minister to make regulations relating to the duties, remuneration, benefits and other terms and conditions of' employment of municipal managers and managers directly accountable to municipal managers; to provide for the approval of staff establishments of municipalities by the respective municipal councils; to prohibit the employment of a person in a municipality if' the post to which he or she is appointed is not provided for in the staff establishment of that municipality; to enable the :Minister to prescribe frameworks to regulate human resource management systems for local government and mandates for organised local government; to extend the Minister's powers to make regulations relating to municipal staff matters; to make a consequential amendment to the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998, by deleting the provision dealing with the appointment of municipal managers; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Land & soil
Keyword
Agricultural development Institution Contract/agreement Policy/planning Land-use planning Public land
Geographical area
Africa, South Atlantic, Southern Africa
Abstract

This Act makes amendments to the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 in respect of a wide variety of matters including municipal managers and acting municipal managers and other matters regarding the administration of municipalities.

Full text
English
Website
www.info.gov.za

References - Legislation

Amends

Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000.

Legislation | South Africa | 2000 (2004)

Keyword: Agricultural development, Institution, Policy/planning, Access-to-information, Gender, Governance, Land-use planning, Public land

Source: FAO, FAOLEX