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Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (Act No. 16 of 2013)

Chapter 7 : General Provisions

60. Transitional provisions

 

 

(1) The repeal of laws referred to in section 59 or by a provincial legislature in relation to provincial or municipal planning does not affect the validity of anything done in terms of that legislation.

 

(2)
(a) All applications, appeals or other matters pending before a tribunal established in terms of section 15 of the Development Facilitation Act, 1995 (Act No. 67 of 1995) at the commencement of this Act that have not been decided or otherwise disposed of, must be continued and disposed of in terms of this Act.
(b) A reference to a tribunal in terms of section 15 of the Development Facilitation Act, 1995 must for the purposes of deciding or otherwise disposing of any application, appeal or other matters pending before a tribunal at the commencement of this Act must be construed as a reference to a local or metropolitan municipality.
(c) References to a designated officer and the registrar in terms of the Development Facilitation Act, 1995 must for the purposes of deciding or otherwise disposing of any application, appeal or other matters pending before a tribunal at the commencement of this Act must be construed as references to an official of a local or metropolitan municipality designated by such municipality to perform such function.
(d) The Minister may prescribe a date by which such applications, appeals or other matters must be disposed of, and may prescribe arrangements in respect of such matters not disposed of by that date.

 

(3) Despite the repeal of the Development Facilitation Act, 1995, a municipality must continue to perform the functions conferred on a designated officer in terms of the Development Facilitation Act, 1995—
(a) to inform the Registrar of Deeds that the conditions of establishment which have to be complied with prior to the commencement of registration, have been complied with as contemplated in section 38(1)(c) of the Development Facilitation Act, 1995; and
(b) to inform the Registrar of Deeds that the applicant and the municipality have fulfilled their obligations relating to the provision of services as contemplated in section 38(1)(d) of the Development Facilitation Act, 1995.