PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION 948
QUESTION:
Ms B N Dambuza (ANC) to ask the Minister of Human Settlements:
Whether, with regard to an increased need for urban housing against the
demographic trend towards urbanization and the growing scarcity in and
increased cost of urban housing, his department is promoting the regulation
and protection of sectional title holder, if not, why not; if so, what are
the relevant details?
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REPLY:
The Sectional Titles Act, 1986 (Act No. 95 of 1986) (âthe Sectional Titles
Actâ) which regulate the sectional tittles industry is currently
administered by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. The
Department of Human Settlements is currently in the process of taking over
certain provisions from the Sectional Titles Act. However, until this
process has been finalized by Parliament, the Department does not have any
legislative or Constitutional authority to promote the regulation and
protection of sectional title holders since these functions currently still
fall within the ambit of the mandate of the Department of Rural Development
and Land Reform through the Sectional Tittles Regulatory Board established
under the Act.
