Complex sentence: The act provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to incorporate as cities, towns, villages, townships, or generically as municipalities, and upper-tier municipalities as counties, regions and district municipalities.
Split into simpler sentences: The act provides lower and single-tier municipalities with the authority to incorporate as cities, towns, villages, townships, or generically as municipalities. For upper-tier municipalities, the act provides them with the authority to incorporate as counties, regions and district municipalities.