Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No. 32 of 2000)

Chapter 8A : Municipal Entities

(1)	A service utility is a juristic person and a municipal entity under the sole control of the municipality which established it.

(2)	A service utility—

(a)	must restrict its activities to the purpose for which it was established; and

(b)	has no competence to perform any activity which falls outside its functions or powers in terms of a by-law of the municipality.

[Section 86I inserted by section 18 of Act No. 44 of 2003]