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Local Government: Municipal Demarcation Act, 1998 (Act No. 27 of 1998)

Chapter 1 : Municipal Demarcation Board

Part 3 : Operating procedures of Board

18. Committees

 

 

(1) The Board may-
(a) establish one or more committees to assist the Board in the performance of its function or the exercise of any of its powers; and
(b) dissolve a committee at any time.

 

(2) The Board-
(a) must determine the function of a committee;
(b) must appoint the chairperson and other members of a committee;
(c) may authorise a committee to co-opt advisory members within limits determined by the Board;
(d) may remove a member of a committee from office at any time; and
(e) may determine a committee's procedure.

 

(3) When appointing members to a committee, the Board is not restricted to Board members.

 

(4) Sections 7, 12 and 13 (3) also apply to members of a committee and when those sections are applied to members of a committee a reference in those sections to the Board and a member of the Board must be read as a reference to a committee and a member of a committee, respectively.

 

(5) The Board determines the remuneration, allowances and other conditions of office of members of a committee who are not-
(a) Board members;
(b) employees; or
(c) in the service of the national government, a provincial government or a municipality.

 

[Date of commencement of section 18 is 3 July 1998.]