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141. Preparation of financial recovery plans

 

(1) Any suitably qualified person may, on request by the provincial executive, prepare a financial recovery plan for a discretionary provincial intervention referred to in section 137.

 

(2) Only the Municipal Financial Recovery Service may prepare a financial recovery plan for a mandatory provincial intervention referred to in section 139.

 

(3) When preparing a financial recovery plan, the person referred to in subsection (1) or the Municipal Financial Recovery Service must—
(a) consult—
(i) the relevant municipality;
(ii) the municipality's principal suppliers and creditors, to the extent they can reasonably be contacted;
(iii) the MEC for finance and the MEC for local government in the province; and
(iv) organised labour;
(b) take into account—
(i) any financial recovery plan that has previously been prepared for the municipality; and
(ii) any proposed financial recovery plan, or proposals for a financial recovery plan, that may be advanced by the municipality or any creditor of the municipality; and
(c) at least 14 days before finalising the plan—
(i) submit the plan for comment to—
(aa) the municipality;
(bb) the MEC for finance and the MEC for local government in the province;
(cc) organised local government in the province;
(dd) organised labour; and
(ee) any supplier or creditor of the municipality, on request; and
(ii) publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality—
(aa) stating the place, including any website address, where copies of the plan will be available to the public free of charge or at a reasonable price; and
(bb) inviting the local community to submit written comments in respect of the plan.

 

(4) The person charged with preparing the financial recovery plan or the Municipal Financial Recovery Service must—
(a) consider any comments received pursuant to subsection (3)(c);
(b) finalise the financial recovery plan; and
(c) submit the final plan to the MEC for finance in the province for approval in terms of section 143.