Division of Revenue Act, 2017 (Act No. 3 of 2017)NoticesAllocations to Provincial and Local GovernmentsExplanatory Memorandum to the Allocations set out in the attached ScheduleChanges to gazetted frameworks |
Substance abuse treatment grant
| 14. | The grant framework for the substance abuse treatment grant will be corrected so that the due date for the submission of business plans reads 1 March 2017, instead of the current 1 February 2017. |
National tertiary services grant and health professions development and training grant
| 15. | The due date for submission of the list of specialists paid from both the provincial equitable share and the health professions development and training grant will be corrected from 28 February 2017 and 31 March 2017 to 30 November 2017. A condition that required the national Department of Health and National Treasury to discuss funding for a review was included twice in the conditions section. This duplication is corrected. The framework is also corrected to rectify the omission of the line specifying the scheduling of the grant. The above-mentioned amendments (excluding the duplicate condition) are also mirrored in the framework for the national tertiary services grant. |
National health insurance grant: ideal clinics component
| 16. | Under the outputs section of the grant framework, the number of facilities to be peer reviewed is amended from 1 700 to 500 clinics. The former target was erroneously captured as it is the cumulative target for the 2017 MTEF, not the single year target in line with the grant's 2017/18 business plan. |
National health insurance grant: health professionals contracting component
| 17. | This component of the national health insurance grant erroneously included a responsibility for the national Department of Health that duplicated reporting requirements that were meant to only apply to infrastructure projects in the national health insurance grant: health facility revitilisation component. This responsibility, which is not aligned to the objectives of the national health insurance grant: health professionals contracting component will therefore be removed from the framework for this component. |
Comprehensive HIV, AIDS and TB grant
| 18. | The comprehensive HIV, AIDS and TB grant framework is amended to include a window for the funding of the malaria outbreak relief intervention. |
Municipal disaster recovery grant
| 19. | The municipal disaster recovery grant framework is being gazetted for 2017/18. This grant did not form part of the Division of Revenue Act, 2017, but has now been allocated in response to the need to repair sinkholes and infrastructure damage caused by sinkholes in the Merafong Local Municipality. The conditions in this grant framework are the same as for previous years when this grant existed. They include the following requirements to govern the use of disaster funds: |
| 20. | Business plans in line with post verification assessment reports must be submitted to the National Disaster Management Centre. |
| 21. | Disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation funds may only be used for approved projects. |
| 22. | Quarterly reports on expenditure on disaster projects must be submitted to the National Disaster Management Centre. |