| (1) |
A member of the Board must be a South African citizen and have a qualification or experience in or knowledge appropriate to- |
| (a) |
local government generally; or |
| (b) |
any of the following: |
| (i) |
development economics; |
| (ii) |
integrated development planning; |
| (iii) |
community development; |
| (iv) |
traditional leadership and traditional communities; |
| (v) |
local government and municipal administration; |
| (vii) |
municipal services; |
| (viii) |
social or economic geography; |
| (ix) |
town and regional planning; |
| (x) |
legal and constitutional matters affecting local government; |
| (xi) |
land survey, cartography and geographic information systems; |
| (xii) |
public health care; or |
| (xiii) |
transport planning. |
| (2) |
The following persons are disqualified from becoming or remaining a member of the Board: |
| (a) |
an unrehabilitated insolvent; |
| (b) |
a person who is placed under curatorship; |
| (c) |
a person who is declared to be of unsound mind by a court of the Republic; or |
| (d) |
a person who after 4 February 1997 has been convicted of an offence and sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine for a period of not less than 12 months. |
| (3) |
A disqualification in terms of subsection (2) (d) ends five years after the imprisonment has been completed. |
[Date of commencement of section 7 is 3 July 1998.]
Statistics Act, 1999
