GROUP Members

Name
 REG NUMBER
Group 7
Tendai Mahara M188311
Felex Muunde M188304
Fortune Mutizwa M180522
Runyararo Mutasa M188053
Kudakwashe Mashaba M188591
Nathaniel Chuma M180438
Leeroy Sibanda M180659
Estina Muremwa M186476
Ruvimbo Mukandi M187628
Donald Mwando M180388
Desire Goneso M181503
Wendy Hlupo M185976
 ALLIED ACTS

They are a variety of acts in Zimbabwe which have an
effect on town planning provisions

These acts are administered by the central

government department
 ALLIED ACTS

 MINERALS AND MINES ACT
 RURAL DISTRICT ACT
 URBAN COUNCILS ACT
 NEW CONTSITUTION OF ZIMBABWE
 Allied Acts

 ‘provides for the planning of regions, districts and local
areas with the object of conserving and improving the
physical environment and in particular promoting health,
safety, order, amenity, convenience and general welfare,
as well as efficiency and economy in the process of
development and the improvement of communications;
 authorize the making of regional plans, master plans and
local plans, whether urban or rural;…to provide for the
control over development, including use of land and
buildings;
 RURAL DISTRICT COUNCILS ACT


 Rural District Councils Act was implemented in 1993
through a process of amalgamation of rural and district
councils, thus finally ending the dual system of rural local
government.
 An Act to provide for the declaration of districts and
the establishment of rural district councils; to confer
and impose functions upon rural district councils
and provide for the administration of their areas; and
to provide for matters connected with or incidental
to the foregoing (RDC Act1998).
 RDC Act

 Zimbabwe’s rural areas are guided by the RTCP Act and
other allied acts. By planning systems is meant a process
of establishing through study and analysis a set of policies
and actions to achieve agreed goals, objectives and
strategies in a given spatial area.
 RDC Act

 This Act regulates the activities in the rural areas of Zimbabwe,
including small settlements such as growth points.
 There are fifty-nine Rural District Councils, each headed by a
Chairman
 had wider authority over matters such as local planning,
council housing, and playgrounds and cemeteries.
 The Rural District Council comprises elected ward councillors,
the District Administrator and one representative of the chiefs
(traditional leaders appointed under customary law) in the
district. Other government functions at district level are carried
out by district offices of national government departments
 MINES & MINERALS
ACT

 It is directly used by the ministry of Mines to manage the
mining sector.
 This includes the siting of mines (mining claims),
installing of machinery, infrastructure for mining locations
and other more specific mining requirements.
 This act has direct relevance to urban and regional
planning, and therefore is an allied act to the Regional,
Town and Country Planning Act.
 MMA

 The Mines and Minerals Act has a wide range of jurisdiction,
which might override the broader consideration of the Regional
Town and country Planning Act, the only Act which can
override the Mines and Minerals Act is the EMA Act due to
environmental considerations all other Acts can be over ruled
because it is Act which heavily boosts the countries’ economy.
 No layout planning for urban expansion over active mining
claim. Layout prepared with in mining claims are not approved
in terms of RTCP Act neither it is approved in terms of urban
council Act or it is approved in terms of mines and minerals Act
by the mining commissioner.
 MMA

 Preparation of the layout plan checks whether there is a mining claim that
might affect the layout plan.
 If a layout is designed without the existence of mines , the owner of the
land then cancellation of plan as according to Section 17,,,cancellation of
prospectors registration in the case of underground mining claims layout is
affected regardless of title deeds.
 Section 2 of the mining act states that the rights of minerals are rested with
president and not the layout planners. It is states that mine and minerals
remains state property and rights can only be granted from the state. This
follows that if by any virtue the local planning authority wishes to design
and or draft a layout plan it cannot do so without consulting the President
hence impinging even the implementation of a drafted layout plan.
 MMA

 The mines and minerals Act advocated for the proper survey before
the any site planning has been done.
 Ministry of mines and the local planning authority has to work hand
in glove when doing site planning or approving any site for a certain
development
 If the mining commissioner found out that on the site proposed for a
certain development there are mineral underground he has the right to
stop development for instance the Chiyadzwa diamond. The residents
of the area were relocated to Odzi in Manicaland. This was in line
with Section 11which grant powers the the board selected in section 7
to require any areas or ground for mining location.
 URBAN COUNCILS ACT (CHAPTER
29:15)

 The Urban Councils Act provides comprehensive
legislation concerning matters related to local and
municipal government.
 it covers matters related to the incorporation of rural
districts or town councils, the election,
 appointment and terms of office of local officials, and
the maintenance of sidewalks, water supply and
public transportation.
 to provide for the conferring of town and city status
on growth points, municipalities and towns
 UCA

 to provide for the declaration of local government
areas and the administration of local government
areas by local boards.
 to confer functions and powers and impose duties
upon municipal and town councils and local boards.
 This Act makes provision with respect to local
government in Zimbabwe and related matters such as
cooperation between authorities.
 The Act, among other things, defines functions and
powers of councils of local authorities
 UCA

 As for land, the Act regulates the expropriation of
private land, alienation of council land, lease of land
and reservation of land for state purposes.
 NEW CONSTITUTION OF
ZIMBABWE

 The constitution of Zimbabwe is the Supreme law of
the land and any other law which is inconsistent with
it is deemed void to the extent of that inconsistence.
Therefore Zimbabwe has Constitutional Supremacy
instead of parliamentary Supremacy.
 The constitution is fundamental framework which
separates the powers of the government into 3
branches which are legislative which makes law, the
executive which execute the law and the judicial
which interprets the law.
 Cont’

 The purpose of the constitution is to regulate all the
other laws and acts in the Zimbabwe because they all
fall under this constitution and it is the supreme law.
 It also balances and reconcile the legal, political and
social functions in Zimbabwe
 The new constitution of Zimbabwe is also thereto
define the legal and political structures of public
institutions and sets out the limits if government
power in order to protect democratic processes and
fundamental human rights
 Cont’

 It is also there to define the boundaries of the
political community
 It defines the nature and authority of political
community
 To define the rights of citizenry
 To divide power between different layers of
government or sub state communities