Long title

To establish a framework for the national government, provincial governments and local governments to promote and facilitate intergovernmental relations; to provide for mechanisms and procedures to facilitate the settlement of intergovernmental disputes; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Table of contents

SECTION	TITLE
	PREAMBLE
	TABLE OF CONTENTS
	CHAPTER 1. INTERPRETATION, APPLICATION AND OBJECT OF ACT
1.	Interpretation
2.	Application of Act
3.	Conflicts with other legislation
4.	Object of Act
5.	Promoting object of Act
	CHAPTER 2. INTERGOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURES
	Part 1. President’s Co-ordinating Council
6.	Composition
7.	Role
8.	Meetings
	Part 2. National intergovernmental forums
9.	Establishment
10.	Composition
11.	Role
12.	Reports and referrals to President’s Co-ordinating Council
13.	Referrals to Budget Council and Budget Forum
14.	Meetings
15.	Joint meetings
	Part 3. Provincial intergovernmental forums
16.	Establishment of Premier’s intergovernmental forum
17.	Composition of Premier’s intergovernmental forum
18.	Role of Premier’s intergovernmental forum
19.	Meetings of Premier’s intergovernmental forum
20.	Reports to President’s Co-ordinating Council
21.	Other provincial intergovernmental forums
22.	Interprovincial forums
23.	Role of interprovincial forums
	Part 4. Municipal intergovernmental forums
24.	Establishment of district intergovernmental forums
25.	Composition of district intergovernmental forums
26.	Role of district intergovernmental forums
27.	Meetings of district intergovernmental forums
28.	Intermunicipality forums
29.	Role of intermunicipality forums
	Part 5. General
30.	Intergovernmental technical support structures
31.	Consultation with organised local government
32.	Status of intergovernmental structures
33.	Internal procedures of intergovernmental structures
34.	Standard draft internal rules
	CHAPTER 3. CONDUCT OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
35.	Implementation protocols
36.	Provincial policies and legislation affecting local government
37.	Responsibility for co-ordinating intergovernmental relations of provinces
38.	Responsibility for co-ordinating intergovernmental relations of district municipalities
	CHAPTER 4. SETTLEMENT OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL DISPUTES
39.	Application of Chapter
40.	Duty to avoid intergovernmental disputes
41.	Declaring disputes as formal intergovernmental disputes
42.	Consequences of declaring formal intergovernmental disputes
43.	Role of facilitator
44.	Assistance by Minister or MEC for local government
45.	Judicial proceedings
	CHAPTER 5. MISCELLANEOUS
46.	Reports to Parliament
47.	Regulations and guidelines
48.	Short title

 
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