A municipality must determine appeal procedures for the lodging and consideration of appeals contemplated in section 51 of the Act in the following instances:
| (a) | if the executive authority of the municipality serves as appeal authority; |
| (b) | if the municipality authorises a body or institution outside of the municipality to assume the obligations of an appeal authority, including a body or institution authorised in terms of an agreement to establish a joint Municipal Planning Tribunal; |
| (c) | if provincial legislation regulates the manner of appeals, but does not determine appeal procedures; and |
| (d) | if the executive authority delegates it authority to hear appeals to an official or a panel of officials as contemplated in section 56 of the Act. |
