Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act, 2004 (Act No. 6 of 2004)

Chapter 2 : Rating

Purchase

(1)	A metropolitan or local municipality may levy a rate on property in its area.

(2) [Subsection (2) deleted by section 2 of Act No. 29 of 2014]

(3)	A municipality must exercise its power to levy a rate on property subject to—

(a)	section 229 and any other applicable provisions of the Constitution;

(b)	the provisions of this Act; and

(c)	the rates policy it must adopt in terms of section 3.