| (1) |
The executive officer may by means of a direction order a land user to comply with a particular control measure which is binding on him on or with regard to the land specified in such direction, or if it is in the opinion of the executive officer essential in order to achieve the objects of this Act, to perform or not to perform any other specified act on or with regard to such land. |
| (2) |
Any such direction may provide that any requirement imposed therein shall be complied with in the manner or within the period specified in the direction. |
| (a) |
shall be published by the executive officer by notice in the Gazette; or |
| (b) |
shall be contained in a written notice served in the prescribed manner on the land user concerned. |
| (4) |
Any direction which has been published or served in terms of subsection (3)— |
| (a) |
shall be binding upon the land user specified therein and his successor in title in relation to the land mentioned in the direction; and |
| (b) |
may be withdrawn or amended by the executive officer by the service of a written notice on the land user concerned or his successor in title or the publication of a notice in the Gazette. |
| (a) |
Any direction which has been declared applicable with regard to land under section 3, 4 or 7 of the Soil Conservation Act, 1969 (Act No. 76 of 1969), and is in force at the commencement of this section, shall be deemed to be a direction which has been served in terms of this section on the land user in respect of the land mentioned therein. |
| (b) |
Any notice given under section 2 of the Weeds Act, 1937 (Act No. 42 of 1937), or any order issued in terms of section 5bis of that Act which is in force at the commencement of this section, shall be deemed to be a direction served in terms of this section on the land user in respect of the land mentioned therein. |
| (a) |
refuses to receive a direction served on him in the prescribed manner; or |
| (b) |
refuses or fails to comply with a direction binding on him, |
shall be guilty of an offence.
National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (107 of 1998)
