abolishes the plenary type municipality, and ensuring that there is a minimum of 10 councillors in a municipality with at least five wards. Secondly, it reduces the extent of changes to municipal ward boundaries by allowing for a deviation of up to 20% of the number of councillors determined for a municipality, in municipalities that are larger than 20 000 square kilometres. Thirdly, it allows an MEC to designate a person to call and chair a meeting, when the municipal manager refuses to do so.