Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No. 32 of 2000)

Chapter 5 : Integrated Development Planning

Part 3 : Process for planning, drafting, adopting and review of integrated development plans

29. Process to be followed

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(1) The process followed by a municipality to draft its integrated development plan, including its consideration and adoption of the draft plan, must—
(a) be in accordance with a predetermined programme specifying timeframes for the different steps;
(b) through appropriate mechanisms, processes and procedures established in terms of Chapter 4, allow for—
(i) the local community to be consulted on its development needs and priorities;
(ii) the local community to participate in the drafting of the integrated development plan; and
(iii) organs of state, including traditional authorities, and other role players to be identified and consulted on the drafting of the integrated development plan;
(c) provide for the identification of all plans and planning requirements binding on the municipality in terms of national and provincial legislation; and
(d) be consistent with any other matters that may be prescribed by regulation.

 

(2) A district municipality must—
(a) plan integrated development for the area of the district municipality as a whole but in close consultation with the local municipalities in that area;
(b) align its integrated development plan with the framework adopted in terms of section 27; and
(c) draft its integrated development plan, taking into account the integrated development processes

of, and proposals submitted to it by the local municipalities in that area.

 

(3)A local municipality must—
(a)align its integrated development plan with the framework adopted in terms of section 27; and
(b) draft its integrated development plan, taking into account the integrated development processes

of, and proposals submitted to it by the district municipality.

 

[Commencement date of section 29: 1 July 2001]