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Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)

Notices

Directions relating to Spatial Planning, Land Use Management and Land Development Processes

2. Purpose

 

2.1 The purpose of these Directions is—
(a) to mitigate the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and to alleviate, contain and minimise the effects of the national state of disaster;
(b) to ensure fair processes, especially relating to spatial planning, land use management and land development processes, public participation processes, appeal processes, reporting requirements and the rendering of municipal planning services during the lockdown period; and
(c) to extend the time frames and deadlines imposed on municipalities and provinces by the Act so as to alleviate, contain and minimise the effects of the national state of disaster.

 

2.2 Subject to these Directions, municipalities and land use regulators are exempted from any provision of the Act which requires any action to be taken between the date of publication of this Notice and the date that the national state of disaster lapses or is terminated in terms of section 27(5) of the Disaster Management Act.