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Marine Living Resources Act, 1998

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To provide for the conservation of the marine ecosystem, the long-term sustainable utilisation of marine living resources and the orderly access to exploitation, utilisation and protection of certain marine living resources; and for these purposes to provide for the exercise of control over marine living resources in a fair and equitable manner to the benefit of all the citizens of South Africa; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

 

Last update: December 2023


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Latest Developments:

 

The Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 (Act No. 18 of 1998), has been updated with Amendments to Regulations under Notice No. R. 1111 of 1998: Regulations in terms of the Marine Living Resources Act, 1998, as per Notice No. 4203 of GG49889, dated 14 December 2023.

 

The Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 (Act No. 18 of 1998), has been updated with Amendments to Regulations under Notice No. R. 1111 of 1998 in terms of the Act, as per Notice No. R.2911 of GG47796, dated 23 December 2022.

 

The Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 (Act No. 18 of 1998), has been updated the Recognition of the Nearshore Survivor’s Association as an interest group in terms of Section 8 of the Act, as per Notice No. 2264 of GG46688, dated 8 July 2022.

 

The Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 (Act No. 18 of 1998) has been updated by an amendment to Regulations R1111 of 1998, as per Notice No. 1373 of Government Gazette 44017, dated 18 December 2020.

 

The Marine Living Resources Act, 1998 (Act No. 18 of 1998) has been amended by the Marine Living Resources Amendment Act, 2014 (Act No. 5 of 2014), Government Gazette 37659, Notice No. 383, dated 19 May 2014.