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National Environmental
Management: Air Quality Amendment Act, No. 20 of 2014
NOTE: Assented to and published in English, with alternative copy in Zulu
NOTE: Assented to and published in English, with alternative copy in Zulu
Long title
To amend the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004, so as to substitute certain sections; to provide for the establishment of the National Air Quality Advisory Committee; to provide for the consequences of unlawful commencement of a listed activity; to provide for monitoring, evaluation and reporting on the implementation of an approved pollution prevention plan; to empower the MEC or Minister to take a decision in the place of the licensing authority under certain circumstances; to provide for the Minister as licensing authorities in situations where the province, as a delegated licensing authority by the municipality, is the applicant for an atmospheric emission licence, where the applications are trans-boundary, where the air activity forms part of national priority project, where the activity is also related to the environmental impact and waste management activities authorised by the Minister, where the air activity relates to a prospecting, mining, exploration or production activity; to delete cross references to the Environmental Conservation Act, 1989; to clarify that applications must be brought to the attention of interested and affected parties soon after the submission to the licensing authority; to provide for a validity period of provisional atmospheric emission licence; to create an offence for non-compliance with controlled fuels standards; to provide for the development of regulations on climate change matters and the procedure and criteria for administrative fines; to delete certain obsolete provisions; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Table of contents
| SECTION | TITLE |
| 1. | Amendment of section 1 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 2. | Amendment
of section 13 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 3. | Insertion
of section 22A of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 4. | Amendment of section 29 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 5. | Amendment
of section 36 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 6. | Amendment
of section 38 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 7. | Amendment
of section 39 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 8. | Amendment
of section 40 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 9. | Amendment of section 41 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 10. | Amendment
of section 49 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 11. | Amendment
of section 51 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 12. | Amendment of section 53 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 13. | Repeal
of section 62 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 14. | Repeal
of section 63 of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 15. | Repeal
of Schedule 2 to Act 39 of 2004 |
| 16. | Amendment
of Table of Contents of Act 39 of 2004 |
| 17. | Short title and commencement |
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