| (1) | The receiving officer of a metropolitan municipality must, unless exempted in terms of subsection (5) and by 29 May 2020, submit to the National Treasury a built environment performance plan that includes all projects partially or fully funded by— |
| (2) | The built environment performance plan, referred to in subsection (1), must— |
| (a) | be in the format determined by the National Treasury, including information on the project pipeline for catalytic urban development projects; |
| (b) | demonstrate that the planned expenditure in the municipality’s integration zones from all the Grants referred to in subsection (1)(a) collectively, increases annually; and |
| (c) | be approved by its municipal council. |
| (3) | The National Treasury must, within seven days after the submission of a built environment performance plan in terms of subsection (1), make the built environment performance plan available to all affected transferring officers and provincial departments. |
| (a) | The receiving officer must report in its annual financial statements on the expenditure from each of the Grants mentioned in subsection (1)(a) in each integration zone of the municipality against its built environment performance plan. |
| (b) | The transferring officer of the Integrated National Electrification Programme Grant, referred to in Part B of Schedule 6, must report in its annual financial statements on the expenditure in each integration zone of every municipality against the built environment performance plan of the municipality. |
| (5) | The National Treasury may— |
| (a) | if satisfied that the planning processes of a metropolitan municipality incorporates the content, practices, processes and approach in a built environment performance plan; and |
| (b) | on application of the municipality in the form determined by the National Treasury, |
exempt the municipality from submitting a built environment performance plan.
