Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act, 2004 (Act No. 6 of 2004)Chapter 4 : General Valuation of Rateable PropertyPart 2 : Municipal valuers42. Access to information |
| (1) | A municipal valuer or assistant municipal valuer may— |
| (a) | require the owner, tenant or occupier of a property which the valuer must value in terms of this Act, or the agent of the owner, or the body corporate controlling a sectional title scheme or the share block company in respect of a share block scheme or the management association in respect of a property time-sharing scheme, to give the valuer access to any document or information in possession of the owner, tenant, occupier, agent, body corporate, share block company or management association which the valuer reasonably requires for purpose of valuing the property; |
[Subsection (1)(a) amended by section 21(a) of Act No. 29 of 2014
| (b) | make extracts from any such document or information; and |
| (c) | in writing require the owner, tenant or occupier of the property, or the agent of the owner, or the body corporate controlling a sectional title scheme or the share block company in respect of a share block scheme or the managing association in respect of a property time-sharing scheme to provide the valuer, either in writing or orally, with particulars regarding the property which the valuer reasonably requires for purpose of valuing the property. |
[Subsection (1)(c) amended by section 21(b) of Act No. 29 of 2014
| (2) | Where any document, information or particulars were not provided when required in terms of subsection (1) and the owner concerned relies on such document, information or particulars in an appeal to an appeal board, the appeal board may make an order as to costs in terms of section 70 if the appeal board is of the view that the failure to so have provided any such document, information or particulars has placed an unnecessary burden on the functions of the municipal valuer or the appeal board. |