Division of Revenue Act, 2020 (Act No. 4 of 2020)Chapter 3 : Conditional Allocations to Provinces and MunicipalitiesPart 2 : Duties of accounting officers in respect of Schedule 4 to 7 allocations9. Duties of transferring officer in respect of Schedule 4 allocations |
| (1) | The transferring officer of a Schedule 4 allocation must— |
| (a) | ensure that transfers to all provinces and municipalities are— |
| (i) | deposited only into the primary bank account of the relevant province or municipality; and |
| (ii) | made in accordance with the payment schedule determined in terms of section 23, unless allocations are withheld or stopped in terms of section 18 or 19; |
| (b) | monitor information on financial and non-financial performance of programmes partially or fully funded by an allocation in Part A of Schedule 4, in accordance with subsection (2) and the applicable framework; |
| (c) | monitor information on financial and non-financial performance of the Urban Settlements Development Grant and Integrated City Development Grant against the capital budget and the service delivery and budget implementation plan; |
| (d) | comply with the applicable framework; |
| (e) | submit a quarterly financial and non-financial performance report within 45 days after the end of each quarter to the National Treasury in terms of the applicable framework; and |
| (f) | evaluate the performance of programmes funded or partially funded by the allocation and submit such evaluations to the National Treasury within four months after the end of the 2020/21 financial year applicable to a provincial department or a municipality, as the case may be. |
| (2) | Any monitoring programme or system that is used to monitor information on financial and non-financial performance of a programme partially or fully funded by a Schedule 4 allocation must— |
| (a) | be approved by the National Treasury; |
| (b) | not impose any excessive administrative responsibility on receiving officers beyond the provision of standard management and budget information; |
| (c) | be compatible and integrated with and not duplicate other relevant national, provincial and local systems; and |
| (d) | support compliance with section 11(2). |
| (3) | A transferring officer may only transfer the Urban Settlements Development Grant or the Integrated City Development Grant to a recipient metropolitan municipality if the municipality has— |
| (a) | submitted a built environment performance plan in terms of section 14(1); or |
| (b) | been exempted in terms of section 14(5). |
| (4) | A framework may impose a duty on the accounting officer of a national or provincial department, other than the transferring officer or receiving officer, that contributes to achieving the purpose of the allocation, and the accounting officer must comply with the duty. |