Miscellaneous Provisions (Local Government Reform) Act, 2022 (No. 11 of 2022).

The Municipal Corporations Act is amended by inserting the definitions of complex development, Municipal Director of Finance, National Planning Authority, simple development in section 2; amending subsection 6(b) of Section 11 regarding the qualifications of person to be elected as a Councillor; amending Section 17 regarding honoraria and allowances of the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors; repealing section 18; amending Section 21 regarding remuneration and the allowances relating to the office of Mayor; inserting Sections 33A, 33B, 33C, 33D, 33E, 33F, 33G, 33H and 33I regarding the roles and responsibilities of Municipal Council and Executive Council, composition of Executive Council of Corporation, functions and duties of the Executive, powers of the members of Executive Council, and the Municipal Corporation to exercise powers under the Public Health Ordinance; inserting Section 35A regarding the responsibilities of Divisions of a Corporation, including but not limited to disaster management, public health, sanitation and the environment, and community development and social services; inserting further subsections after Section 35A for each division and their responsibilities in detail; amending section 37 regarding the functions of the Corporation; inserting Section 42A regarding the notification of occupational disease; inserting section 43(2) regarding the functions of the Municipal Director of Health; inserting Section 43A regarding the implementation of the Insect Vector Control; inserting Section 43B regarding the requirement of Municipal Director of Health to report infectious diseases; inserting Section 43C regarding the standards in respect of public health matters to be approved by the Chief Medical Officer; inserting new subsections in section 69 regarding the establishment and composition of an Audit Committee; inserting Part V on propoerty tax including provisions in accordance with the Property Tax Act, 2009; amending section 109 regarding the Corporation Fund; inserting Section 123A regarding the application of provisions of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Property Act to all Municipal Corporations; inserting Section 124A regarding the applications to develop land in accordance with section 32 of the Planning and Facilitation of Development Act; inserting Subsection 2A in Section 200 regarding the persons who sell, or offer for sale, any fresh or frozen meat or fish or any marketable commodity not being meat or fish in any place approved by the National Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation; inserting paragraph (d) in Section 233 regarding the objectives of the Association of Local Government Corporations of Trinidad and Tobago; and inserting new Schedules after the Eleventh Schedule.
This Act further amends (I) the Recreation Grounds and Pastures Act by replacing the word “County” with the words “Municipal Corporation or the Tobago House of Assembly” wherever it appears; (II) the Property Tax Act by inserting Section 9A on forwarding the tax assessment relative to residential land to each Municipal Corporation in relation to its Municipality; inserting new subsections after section 10(1) regarding the collection of tax on residential land by the Municipal Corporation; and inserting Section 22 regarding appeals for the assessment of tax on in respect of residential land; and (III) the Planning and Facilitation of Development Act, 2014 by amending the items in relation to the Municipal Corporation Act in the Fourth Schedule.