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NATIONAL LEGISLATION OVERVIEWS
NATIONAL LEGISLATION OVERVIEWS
National Environment
Laws Amendment Act, No. 44 of 2008
NOTE: Assented to and published in English, with alternative copy in Afrikaans excecpt iro title/text/engrossments in the following sections: s8 (Afrikaans/Afrikaans/English)**
Long title
To provide for the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act, 1965, to be regarded as a specific environmental management Act until section 60 of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004, takes effect; to amend the Environment Conservation Act, 1989, so as to rectify certain incorrect references in the Act; to amend the National Environmental Management Act, 1998, so as to clarify an uncertainty in the Act concerning certain definitions; to authorise the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry to designate persons as environmental management inspectors; to provide for environmental management inspectors to be regarded as peace officers as contemplated in the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977; and to provide for a penalty for the offence of failing to comply with a compliance notice in terms of section 31N of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998; and to amend the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004, so as to substitute Schedule 1 to that Act; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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NOTE: Assented to and published in English, with alternative copy in Afrikaans excecpt iro title/text/engrossments in the following sections: s8 (Afrikaans/Afrikaans/English)**
Long title
To provide for the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act, 1965, to be regarded as a specific environmental management Act until section 60 of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004, takes effect; to amend the Environment Conservation Act, 1989, so as to rectify certain incorrect references in the Act; to amend the National Environmental Management Act, 1998, so as to clarify an uncertainty in the Act concerning certain definitions; to authorise the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry to designate persons as environmental management inspectors; to provide for environmental management inspectors to be regarded as peace officers as contemplated in the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977; and to provide for a penalty for the offence of failing to comply with a compliance notice in terms of section 31N of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998; and to amend the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004, so as to substitute Schedule 1 to that Act; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Table of contents
| SECTION | TITLE |
| 1. | Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act, 1965, to be regarded as specific environmental management Act [NOTE: Provision for this to lapse] |
| 2. | Amendment
of section 29 of Act 73 of 1989... |
| 3. | Amendment
of section 1 of Act 107 of 1998... |
| 4. | Insertion
of section 31BA in Act 107 of 1998 |
| 5. | Substitution
of section 31D of Act 107 of 1998... |
| 6. | Amendment
of section 31H of Act 107 of 1998... |
| 7. | Amendment
of section 31N of Act 107 of 1998... |
| 8. | Substitution
of Schedule 1 to Act 39 of 2004 |
| 9. | Short title and commencement |
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