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Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003 (Act No. 56 of 2003)

Chapter 3 : Municipal Revenue

Part 2 : Cash, investment and asset management

13. Cash management and investments

 

(1) The Minister, acting with the concurrence of the Cabinet member responsible for local government, may prescribe a framework within which municipalities must—
(a) conduct their cash management and investments; and
(b) invest money not immediately required.

 

(2) A municipality must establish an appropriate and effective cash management and investment policy in accordance with any framework that may be prescribed in terms of subsection (1).

 

(3) A bank where a municipality at the end of a financial year holds a bank account, or held a bank account at any time during a financial year, must—
(a) within 30 days after the end of that financial year notify the Auditor-General, in writing, of such bank account, including—
(i) the type and number of the account; and
(ii) the opening and closing balances of that bank account in that financial year; and
(b) promptly disclose information regarding the account when so requested by the National Treasury or the Auditor-General.

 

(4) A bank, insurance company or other financial institution which at the end of a financial year holds, or at any time during a financial year held, an investment for a municipality, must—
(a) within 30 days after the end of that financial year, notify the Auditor-General, in writing, of that investment, including the opening and closing balances of that investment in that financial year; and
(b) promptly disclose information regarding the investment when so requested by the National Treasury or the Auditor-General.