HDA Annual Report

ANNUAL REPORT 2023/24

addresses part of spatial and regulatory imbalances; and promotes greater consistency and uniformity in the application procedures and decision-making by authorities responsible for land use decisions and development applications. The Act further provides for the establishment, functions and operations of Municipal Planning Tribunals, and provides for the facilitation and enforcement of land use and development measures and matters connected herewith. COMMUNAL PROPERTIES ASSOCIATIONS ACT, 1996 (ACT NO. 28 OF 1996) The Act enables communities to form juristic persons, to be known as Communal Property Associations, to acquire, hold and manage property on a basis agreed to by members of a community in terms of a written constitution. ALIENATION OF LAND ACT, 1981 (ACT NO. 68 OF 1981 AS AMENDED) Regulates the alienation of land in certain circumstances. IMMOVEABLE ASSETS MANAGEMENT ACT (Act NO. 19 OF 2007) Provides for, amongst others, a uniform framework for the management of immoveable assets that are held or used by a national or provincial department, and ensures coordination of the use of immoveable assets with service delivery objectives of national and provincial departments. DEEDS REGISTRY ACT, 1937 (ACT NO. 47 OF 1937 AS AMENDED) Consolidates and amends the laws relating to the registration of deeds. EXTENSION OF SECURITY OF TENURE ACT, 1997 (ACT NO. 62 OF 1997) The Act provides for measures with State assistance to facilitate long-term security of land tenure and to regulate the conditions of residence on certain

land; the conditions on and circumstances under which the right of persons to reside on land may be terminated; the conditions and circumstances under which persons, whose right of residence has been terminated, may be evicted from the land. UPGRADING OF TENURE RIGHTS ACT, 1991 (ACT NO. 112 OF 1991 AS AMENDED) Provides for the upgrading and conversion into ownership of certain rights granted in respect of land. CONVERSION OF CERTAIN RIGHTS INTO LEASEHOLD OR OWNERSHIP ACT, 1988 (NO. 81 OF 1988 AS AMENDED) This law allows for the conversion of certain types of land tenure, particularly in urban townships, from precarious or informal rights into more secure forms of tenure such as leasehold or full ownership. LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT, 1995 (ACT NO. 2 OF 1995 AS AMENDED) Provides for the delegation of powers and assignment of administrative laws regarding land matters to provinces and provides for the creation of uniform land legislation. EXPROPRIATION ACT, 1975 (ACT NO. 63 OF 1975 AS AMENDED) Provides the Minister of DPWI with the power to expropriate property for public and certain other purposes and to use the property for public purposes. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT ACT, 1998 (ACT NO. 107 OF 1998 AS AMENDED) Protects ecologically viable areas representative of South Africa’s biological diversity and its natural landscapes and seascapes in a system of protected areas.

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