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

Chapter 1 : Municipal Demarcation Board

Part 2 : Membership of Board

7. Qualifications

 

 

(1) A member of the Board must be a South African citizen and have a qualification or experience in or knowledge appropriate to-
(a) local government generally; or
(b) any of the following:
(i) development economics;
(ii) integrated development planning;
(iii) community development;
(iv) traditional leadership and traditional communities;
(v) local government and municipal administration;
(vi) municipal finance;
(vii) municipal services;
(viii) social or economic geography;
(ix) town and regional planning;
(x) legal and constitutional matters affecting local government;
(xi) land survey, cartography and geographic information systems;
(xii) public health care; or
(xiii) transport planning.

 

(2) The following persons are disqualified from becoming or remaining a member of the Board:
(a) an unrehabilitated insolvent;
(b) a person who is placed under curatorship;
(c) a person who is declared to be of unsound mind by a court of the Republic; or
(d) a person who after 4 February 1997 has been convicted of an offence and sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine for a period of not less than 12 months.

 

(3) A disqualification in terms of subsection (2) (d) ends five years after the imprisonment has been completed.

 

[Date of commencement of section 7 is 3 July 1998.]