Chapter 11 - Sedibeng District Municipality

• provide for the necessary land us rights with respect to stations and for the
necessary powers of the MEC to enter into contracts for road and rail projects;
• amend the procedure in relation to route determination;
• make a second environmental investigation at the stage of preliminary design
of a road or railw ay line unnecessary where the competent environmental
authority decides that the environmental investigation at the stage of route
determination is adequate; and
• provide for incidental matters.
(e) Gauteng Planning and Development Act, 2003 (Act 3 of 2003)
The purpose of this Act is to:
• provide for a single system of development, planning and land management in
the province;
• set out principles for planning and development in the province;
• establish planning bodies and to provide for appeals to the Appeal Tribunal;
• create a framew ork for the preparation of development plans and framew orks;
• provide for the creation of zoning schemes;
• provide for general matters such as enforcement procedures; and
• provide for matters connected therew ith.
(f) Gauteng Tourism Act, 1998 (Act 18 of 1998)
This Act, among other things, is to provide for the licensing of tour operators, tour
guides and couriers, and matters incidental thereto.
2.3 Role of Municipalities in terms of the NationalLand Transport Act, 2009 (Act 5 of
2009)
The National Land Transport Act, 2009 (Act 5 of 2009) points the way for a more
rational division of responsibilities betw een the spheres of government, i.e. to ensure
that there is clear accountability and that the planning, management and monitoring
of particularly public transport is located in one place. Hence the objective is to
consolidate land transport functions and locate them in the appropriate sphere of
government.
The Act gives national government a strategic planning function and the pow er to
assign functions to the most appropriate sphere of government, as well as other
pow ers such as the ability to regulate touris m transport and the capacity to act as a
contracting authority for various contracts. The Act further allows for provinces to
adopt a planning, co-ordination and facilitation role betw een municipalities and other
government departments w hose work impacts on transport and land use planning.
There is also an explicit role for provinces outside the metros. This includes ensuring
the implementation of the provincial integrated development strategy and a public
transport strategy with due attention to rural areas with the focus on less capacitated
municipalities or those that do not fulfil their responsibilities in respect of transport
service delivery, either by direct implementation or assistance that ensures they are
capacitated. The idea of having separate transport authorities has been dropped and
the responsibility now rests firmly w ith the municipality to w hich powers have been
assigned.
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