"owner"—
| (a) | in relation to a property referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of "property", means a person in whose name ownership of the property is registered; |
| (b) | in relation to a right referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of "property", means a person in whose name the right is registered; |
| (bA) | in relation to a time sharing interest contemplated in the Property Time-sharing Control Act, 1983 (Act No. 75 of 1983), means the management association contemplated in the regulations made in terms of section 12 of the Property Time-sharing Control Act, 1983, and published in Government Notice R327 of 24 February 1984; |
| (bB) | in relation to a share in a share block company, the share block company as defined in the Share Blocks Control Act, 1980 (Act No. 59 of 1980); |
| (bC) | in relation to buildings, other immovable structures and infrastructure referred to in section 17(1)(f), means the holder of the mining right or the mining permit; |
| (c) | in relation to a land tenure right referred to in paragraph (c) of the definition of "property", means a person in whose name the right is registered or to whom it was granted in terms of legislation; or |
| (d) | in relation to public service infrastructure referred to in paragraph (d) of the definition of "property", means the organ of state which owns or controls that public service infrastructure as envisaged in the definition of "publicly controlled", |
provided that a person mentioned below may for the purposes of this Act be regarded by a municipality as the owner of a property in the following cases:
| (i) | A trustee, in the case of a property in a trust excluding state trust land; |
| (ii) | an executor or administrator, in the case of a property in a deceased estate; |
| (iii) | a trustee or liquidator, in the case of a property in an insolvent estate or in liquidation; |
| (iv) | a judicial manager, in the case of a property in the estate of a person under judicial management; |
| (v) | a curator, in the case of a property in the estate of a person under curatorship; |
| (vi) | a person in whose name a usufruct or other personal servitude is registered, in the case of a property that is subject to a usufruct or other personal servitude; |
| (vii) | a lessee, in the case of a property that is registered in the name of a municipality and is leased by it; |
| (viiA) | a lesee,in the case of property to which a land tenure right applies and which is leased by the holder of such right; or |
| (viii) | a buyer, in the case of a property that was sold by a municipality and of which possession was given to the buyer pending registration of ownership in the name of the buyer; |
[Definition paragraphs (bA) (bB) (bC) inserted by section 1(i) (i) of Act No. 29 of 2014]
[Definition paragraph (viiA) inserted by section 1(i) (ii) of Act No. 29 of 2014]