in relation to a Schedule 4, 6, 7, 8 or 9 allocation transferred to or provided in kind to a municipality, means the accounting officer of the municipality; ''this Act'' includes any framework or allocation published, or any regulation made under this Act; ''transferring national officer'' means the accounting officer of a national department that transfers a Schedule 4, 5, 6, 8 or 9 allocation to a province or municipality or spends a Schedule 7 allocation on behalf of a municipality.
Any determination, instruction or request in terms of this Act must be in writing.
Revenue raised nationally in respect of the ï¬nancial year must be divided among the national, provincial and local spheres of government for their equitable share allocations as set out in Column A of Schedule 1.
Schedule 9, specifying funds that are currently not allocated to speciï¬c provinces, that may be released to provinces to fund disaster response within a period from three days up to three months following a declared disaster in terms of the conditions of the Disaster Management Act.
An envisaged division of conditional allocations to provinces from the national government's share of revenue anticipated to be raised nationally for the next ï¬nancial year and the 2013/14 ï¬nancial year, which is subject to the annual Division of Revenue Acts for those years, is set out in Column B of the Schedules referred to in subsection (1).
A municipality may, only after obtaining the approval of the National Treasury, pledge, offer as security or commit to a person or institution future conditional allocation transfers due to the municipality for the next ï¬nancial year and the 2013/14 ï¬nancial year, for the purpose of securing a loan or any other form of ï¬nancial or other support from that person or institution.
evaluating the performance of programmes funded or partially funded by the allocation and the submission of such evaluations to the National Treasury, within four months in respect of a province, and six months in respect of a municipality, after the end of the ï¬nancial year.
(a) Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to the Urban Settlements Development Grant.
The transferring national officer for the Human Settlements Development Grant, after consultation with the receiving officer and the National Treasury, must determine the allocations from the Human Settlements Development Grant for each municipality that receives the Urban Settlements Development Grant and submit those allocations to the National Treasury not later than 14 days after this Act takes effect, and the National Treasury must publish those allocations in the Gazette within 14 days after receipt of the allocations.