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National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998)

Chapter 7 : Compliance, Enforcement and Protection

Part 2 : Application and enforcement of Act and any specific environmental management Act

31A. Application

 

(1) This Part applies to the enforcement of this Act and any specific environmental management Act.

 

(2) In this Part, unless inconsistent with the context, a word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in a specific environmental management Act has, in relation to the administration or enforcement of that Act, the meaning assigned to it in that Act.

 

(3) For the purposes of this Part, Schedule 1 to the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 5 1 of 1977): is deemed to include an offence committed in terms of this Act or a specific environmental management Act.